Optical control of the rotational angular momentum of a molecular Rydberg wave packet

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 243601/1-243601/4

  Minns, R S ^b   Patel, R ^b   Verlet, J R R ^b   Fielding, H H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ELECTRONS; LASER PULSES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PHASE COMPOSITION;

MOLECULAR RYDBERG WAVE POCKET; OPTICAL CONTROL; PHASE-LOCKED OPTICAL PULSES; ROTATIONAL QUANTUM STATE;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0942300802     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.243601     Document Type: Article

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