Coherent control of cold-molecule formation through photoassociation using a chirped-pulsed-laser field

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 013412-013411

  Vala, J ^a   Dulieu, O ^b   Masnou Seeuws, F ^b   Pillet, P ^b   Kosloff, R ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CESIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; HAMILTONIANS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

PHOTOASSOCIATION; POPULATION INVERSION; TIME-DEPENDENT SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS (TDSE);

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 4243838236     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.013412     Document Type: Article

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