Experimental observation of carrier-envelope-phase effects by multicycle pulses

Journal Article · Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.83.033404· OSTI ID:21541310

Jha, Pankaj K; Scully, Marlan O ^[1]; Rostovtsev, Yuri V ^[2]; Hebin, Li ^[1]; Sautenkov, Vladimir A ^[1]

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1. Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203 (United States)

We present an experimental and theoretical study of carrier-envelope-phase (CEP) effects on the population transfer between two bound atomic states interacting with pulses consisting of many cycles. Using intense radio-frequency pulse with Rabi frequency of the order of the atomic transition frequency, we investigate the influence of the CEP on the control of phase-dependent multiphoton transitions between the Zeeman sublevels of the ground state of {sup 87}Rb. Our scheme has no limitation on the duration of the pulses. Extending the CEP control to longer pulses creates interesting possibilities to generate pulses with accuracy that is better than the period of optical oscillations.

• OSTI ID: 21541310
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 83, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.033404; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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