Coherent state preparation and observation of Rabi oscillations in a single molecule

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Gerhardt, I ^a,b   Wrigge, G ^a   Zumofen, G ^a   Hwang, J ^a   Renn, A ^a   Sandoghdar, V ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STATES; LASER EXCITATION; MOLECULES; PHOTONS;

COHERENT MANIPULATION; EXCITATION POWER; FREQUENCY DETUNING; LASER INTENSITIES; PULSE EXCITATION; RABI OSCILLATIONS; SHORT LASER PULSE; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 59949087758     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.011402     Document Type: Article

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