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View SchemaObservation of coherent transients in ultrashort chirped excitation of an undamped two-level system
| Authors | Sebastien Zamith, Jerome Degert, Sabine Stock, Beatrice de Beauvoir, Valerie Blanchet, M. Aziz Bouchene, Bertrand Girard |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0105032 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0105032 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.033001 |
Abstract
The effects of Coherent excitation of a two level system with a linearly chirped pulse are studied theoretically and experimentally (in Rb (5s - 5p)) in the low field regime. The Coherent Transients are measured directly on the excited state population on an ultrashort time scale. A sharp step corresponds to the passage through resonance. It is followed by oscillations resulting from interferences between off-resonant and resonant contributions. We finally show the equivalence between this experiment and Fresnel diffraction by a sharp edge.
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.033001",
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