DOUBLE PHOTOEXCITATION FROM LASER EXCITED Li(1$s^2$2$p$) M.-T. Huang,$^*$ R. Wehlitz,$^*$ S.~Hasegawa,$^{\#}$ K.~Ohmori,$^{\dag}$ I.~A.~Sellin$^{\ddag}$ and Y. Azuma$^*$ $^*$ {\rm Photon Factory, IMSS, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan}\\ $^{\#}$ {\rm Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-lu, Tokyo 113, Japan}\\ $^{\dag}$ {\rm RISM, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-77, Japan}\\ $^{\ddag}$ {\rm Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1200, USA}\\ Even parity doubly excited states of lithium from laser excited Li(1$s^2$2$p$)$^2P_0$ targets have been observed by photoexcitation with synchrotron radiation. The polarization of the laser light used to create 1$s^2$2$p$ state was either parallel or perpendicular to that of synchrotron radiation. It is found that the strength of many of these doubly photo-excited resonances show a clear dependence on the laser polarization. The resonance energies, width and q-values of some of these resonances are also presented.