Redistribution of atomic Rydberg states by tunable narrow band picosecond far-infrared pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 186-196

  Raman, C ^a   DeCamp, M F ^a   Bucksbaum, P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GROUND STATE; INFRARED RADIATION; IONIZATION; MICROWAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PROBABILITY;

COHERENT OPTICAL EFFECTS; MILLIMETER RADIATION; RYDBERG STATES; WAVEPACKETS;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 0011702101     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.1.000186     Document Type: Article

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