Shaping an atomic electron wave packet

Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 176-185

  Noel, Michael W ^a   Stroud Jr , C R ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; LASER PULSES; QUANTUM THEORY; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ATOMIC SYSTEM; COHERENT OPTICAL EFFECTS; ELECTRON WAVE PACKET; ELECTRON WAVEFUNCTION; QUANTUM STATE DISTRIBUTIONS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0012572393     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.1.000176     Document Type: Article

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