Making ultracold molecules in a two-color pump-dump photoassociation scheme using chirped pulses

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Koch, Christiane P ^a,b   Luc Koenig, Eliane ^a   Masnou Seeuws, Françoise ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED PICOSECOND PULSES; DUMP PULSE PARAMETERS; PUMP-DUMP PHOTOASSOCIATION SCHEME; ULTRACOLD MOLECULES;

BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; CESIUM COMPOUNDS; DELAY CIRCUITS; GROUND STATE; PROBABILITY; STABILIZATION;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 33644784697     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.033408     Document Type: Article

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