Characteristic oscillations in the coherent transients of ultracold rubidium molecules using red and blue detuned pulses for photoassociation

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Weise, Fabian ^a   Merli, Andrea ^a   Eimer, Frauke ^a   Birkner, Sascha ^a   Sauer, Franziska ^a   Wöste, Ludger ^a   Lindinger, Albrecht ^a   Salzmann, Wenzel ^b   Mullins, Terence G ^b   Wester, Roland ^b   Weidemüller, Matthias ^c   Aǧanoǧlu, Ruzin ^a   Koch, Christiane P ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC RESONANCES; COLLIDING ATOMS; DETUNED; DYNAMICAL SIMULATION; EXCITATION PULSE; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; HIGH-PASS; MOLECULAR STATE; OSCILLATORY COMPONENTS; PHOTOASSOCIATION; SPECTRAL FILTERING; SPECTRAL OVERLAP; STRONG FIELD; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE; ULTRACOLD RUBIDIUM; ULTRACOLD RUBIDIUM ATOMS;

ATOMS; COMPUTER VISION; LASER EXCITATION; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; RUBIDIUM; TRANSIENTS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 70449880027     PISSN: 09534075     EISSN: 13616455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/42/21/215307     Document Type: Article

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