Chirping a two-photon transition in a multistate ladder

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Merkel, Wolfgang ^a   MacK, Holger ^a   Schleich, Wolfgang P ^a   Lutz, Eric ^b   Paulus, Gerhard G ^c   Girard, Bertrand ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER PULSES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CHIRPED LASER PULSES; LADDER SYSTEMS; PHOTON TRANSITION; PROBABILITY AMPLITUDE;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

EID: 34548178459     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.023417     Document Type: Article

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