Phase control of a two-photon transition with shaped femtosecond laser-pulse sequences

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Prakelt A ^a   Wollenhaupt, M ^a   Sarpe Tudoran, C ^a   Baumert, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLUORESCENCE; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER PULSES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE CONTROL; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE MODULATION; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

FEMTOSECOND LASER-PULSES; PHASE EFFECTS; PULSE-SHAPING TECHNIQUES; TWO-PHOTON TRANSITION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 42749103928     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.063407     Document Type: Article

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