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Precise Control of Molecular Dynamics with a Femtosecond Frequency Comb - A Weak Field Route to Strong Field Coherent Control

Name: Precise Control of Molecular Dynamics with a Femtosecond Frequency Comb - A Weak Field Route to Strong Field Coherent Control
Keywords: Quantum Physics, Physics - Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Physics - Atomic Physics, Physics - Optics

Pe'er, Avi; Shapiro, Evgeny A.; Stowe, Matthew C.; Shapiro, Moshe; Ye, Jun;

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Published: 01 Sep 2006

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We present a general and highly efficient scheme for performing narrow-band Raman transitions between molecular vibrational levels using a coherent train of weak pump-dump pairs of shaped ultrashort pulses. The use of weak pulses permits an analytic description within the framework of coherent control in the perturbative regime, while coherent accumulation of many pulse pairs enables near unity transfer efficiency with a high spectral selectivity, thus forming a powerful combination of pump-dump control schemes and the precision of the frequency comb. The concept is presented analytically and its feasibility and robustness are verified by simulations of dynamics...

doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.113004

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free text keywords: Quantum Physics, Physics - Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Physics - Atomic Physics, Physics - Optics

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Department of Chemical Physics Weizmann Institute of Science
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Weizmann Institute of Science
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University of British Columbia
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