Pathway for two-color photoassociative ionization with ultrafast optical pulses in a Rb magneto-optical trap

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Veshapidze, G ^a   Trachy, M L ^a   Jang, H U ^a   Fehrenbach, C W ^a   Depaola, B D ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MAGNETOOPTICAL TRAP; PHOTOASSOCIATIVE IONIZATION;

RUBIDIUM;

EID: 36249025565     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.051401     Document Type: Article

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