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View SchemaCoherent control of ultracold molecule dynamics in a magneto-optical trap using chirped femtosecond laser pulses
| Authors | Benjamin L. Brown, Alexander J. Dicks, Ian A. Walmsley |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0509109 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509109 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.173002 |
Abstract
We have studied the effects of chirped femtosecond laser pulses on the formation of ultracold molecules in a Rb magneto-optical trap. We have found that application of chirped femtosecond pulses suppressed the formation of 85Rb-2 and 87Rb-2 lowest triplet state molecules in contrast to comparable non-chirped pulses, cw illumination, and background formation rates. Variation of the amount of chirp indicated that this suppression is coherent in nature, suggesting that coherent control is likely to be useful for manipulating the dynamics of ultracold quantum molecular gases.
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.173002",
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