Photoassociation and coherent transient dynamics in the interaction of ultracold rubidium atoms with shaped femtosecond pulses. I. Experiment

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Mullins, Terry ^a   Salzmann, Wenzel ^a,c   Götz, Simone ^a   Albert, Magnus ^a,d   Eng, Judith ^a   Wester, Roland ^a   Weidemüller, Matthias ^a,e   Weise, Fabian ^b   Merli, Andrea ^b   Weber, Stefan M ^b   Sauer, Franziska ^b   Wöste, Ludger ^b   Lindinger, Albrecht ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IPM   (Germany)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SAMPLE; DETUNINGS; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; ELECTRONIC GROUND STATE; EXCITATION PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; FEMTOSECONDS; MOLECULAR FORMATION; MOLECULAR STATE; MOLECULE FORMATION; NONLINEAR DEPENDENCE; NONPERTURBATIVE; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; PHOTOASSOCIATION; PULSE ENERGIES; PUMP-PROBE SPECTRA; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL CALCULATION; RUBIDIUM ATOMS; SPONTANEOUS DECAY; TIME-RESOLVED; TRANSIENT DYNAMICS; TRANSITION FREQUENCIES; ULTRA-COLD; ULTRACOLD RUBIDIUM ATOMS;

ATOMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; GROUND STATE; LASERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RUBIDIUM; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 71849083976     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.063416     Document Type: Article

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