Minns, RS;
Patel, R;
Verlet, JRR;
Fielding, HH;
(2003)
Optical control of the rotational angular momentum of a molecular Rydberg wave packet.
PHYS REV LETT
, 91
(24)
, Article 243601. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.243601.
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Abstract
An intuitive scheme for controlling the rotational quantum state of a Rydberg molecule is demonstrated experimentally. We determine the accumulated phase difference between the various components of a molecular electron wave packet, and then employ a sequence of phase-locked optical pulses to selectively enhance or depopulate specific rotational states. The angular momentum composition of the resulting wave packet, and the efficiency of the control scheme, is determined by calculating the multipulse response of the time-dependent Rydberg populations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Optical control of the rotational angular momentum of a molecular Rydberg wave packet |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.243601 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.243601 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2003 The American Physical Society |
| Keywords: | FEMTOSECOND LASER-PULSES, PHASE, DYNAMICS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/120066 |
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