Control of molecular orientation and alignment by monotonic schemes

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control, MIC

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 64-68

  Julien, Salomon ^a   Turinici, Gabriel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Bilinear control; Laser pulse shape designing; Molecular orientation and alignment; Monotonically convergent schemes; Quantum control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BILINEAR CONTROL; LASER PULSE SHAPE DESIGNING; MONOTONICALLY CONVERGENT SYSTEMS; QUANTUM CONTROL;

MOLECULAR ORIENTATION;

EID: 27944508733     PISSN: 10258973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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