Kr (n=5-10,s,d,g) electronic wave packets: Electron time-of-flight resolution and the ac-Stark shift during wave-packet preparation

Journal Article · Fri Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 2005 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.042709· OSTI ID:20653310

Gilb, Stefan; Nestorov, Vilen; Leone, Stephen R; Keske, John C; Nugent-Glandorf, Lora; Grant, Edward R ^[1]

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1. Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

A two-color (3+1{sup '}) pump-probe scheme is used to create Rydberg wave packets in krypton atoms. The ac-Stark shift, caused by the high intensity pump pulse, allows access to states with principal quantum numbers n=5-10 over a broad energy range. States shifted by as much as 3000 cm{sup -1} during the pump pulse are coherently excited, resulting in wave-packet superpositions of field free states. By resolving the kinetic energy of the photoelectrons produced in the ionization probe step, numerous quantum beats are resolved and assigned. In addition, the energies of four previously unmeasured g states are determined.

• OSTI ID: 20653310
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 71; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
ATOMS
ELECTRONS
G STATES
KINETIC ENERGY
KRYPTON
MULTI-PHOTON PROCESSES
PHOTOIONIZATION
PHOTON-ATOM COLLISIONS
PULSES
QUANTUM NUMBERS
RESOLUTION
RYDBERG STATES
SPECTRAL SHIFT
STARK EFFECT
TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD
WAVE PACKETS