Adiabatic excitation of rotational ladder by chirped laser pulses

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Vitanov, N V ^a,c   Girard, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ADIABATIC EXCITATION; CENTRIFUGAL FORCES; CHIRPED LASER PULSES; ROTATIONAL EXCITATION;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 2542483778     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.033409     Document Type: Article

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