Stark wave packets viewed with half-cycle pulses

被引：40

作者：

Raman, C

Weinacht, TC

Bucksbaum, PH

机构：

[1] Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1997年 / 55卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevA.55.R3995

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We have directly observed the motion of Rydberg wave packets of cesium in a static electric field through their ionization by half-cycle electromagnetic field pulses. Both Kepler orbital motion as well as angular motion, i.e., the periodic change in orbit ellipticity due to angular momentum evolution, can be clearly seen. The latter has never been directly observed, because conventional photoionization and two-pulse optical interferometry experiments are only sensitive to dynamics near the ion core and not when the wave packet has a high angular momentum.

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页码：R3995 / R3998

页数：4

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