MICROWAVE MULTIPHOTON RABI OSCILLATIONS

被引:21
作者
GATZKE, M
BARUCH, MC
WATKINS, RB
GALLAGHER, TF
机构
[1] Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1993年 / 48卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.48.4742
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We have made direct observations of microwave multiphoton Rabi oscillations between two Rydberg states in potassium in the strong-radiation-field regime, where a perturbative treatment of the atom-field interaction becomes invalid. The results of measurements of the Rabi oscillation frequency are presented and compared with results calculated using Floquet theory, which predicts a very different field dependence for the Rabi frequency than is typical in the perturbation-theory limit.
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页码:4742 / 4749
页数:8
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