Adiabatic Raman photoassociation with shaped laser pulses

Cold Molecules: Theory, Experiment, Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 291-316

  Shapiro, Evgeny A ^a   Shapiro, Moshe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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