Piecewise adiabatic passage with a series of femtosecond pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Shapiro, E A ^a   Milner, V ^a   Menzel Jones, C ^a   Shapiro, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ATOMIC SODIUM; PIECEWISE ADIABATIC PASSAGE; POPULATION TRANSFER; QUANTUM STATES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34547461674     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.033002     Document Type: Article

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