Ramsey interference in strongly driven Rydberg systems
- 18 October 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 71 (16), 2575-2578
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.2575
Abstract
We have studied the evolution of regular and ‘‘dark’’ radial wave packets under the influence of two coherent, temporally separated 100 fs laser pulses. The atomic states are probed by ramped-field ionization. The final state populations exhibit Ramsey oscillations with periods ranging from 2.6–1000 fs as a function of the delay between the two pulses. This time-domain bound-state interferometry reveals several new aspects of the dynamic evolution of wave packets in the presence of strong laser fields. Lowest order perturbation theory is inadequate to describe wave packet formations, even at the lowest intensities studied.Keywords
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