PHASE-SENSITIVE DYNAMICS OF BICHROMATICALLY DRIVEN 2-LEVEL ATOMS

被引:51
作者
WU, QL
GAUTHIER, DJ
MOSSBERG, TW
机构
[1] Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1994年 / 49卷 / 03期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.49.R1519
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Observations of qualitatively different coherent transient phenomena associated with bichromatic optical excitation are reported. The effects demonstrated include the control of atomic dynamics through a variation of the initial relative phase of the driving fields and the polarization of population within atom-field dressed states. The dynamics observed are fundamentally more complex than those characteristic of monochromatically driven atoms.
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页码:R1519 / R1522
页数:4
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