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Q: Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 2: Poster Quantengase
Q 2.15: Poster
Friday, March 4, 2005, 11:00–12:30, Poster HU
Creating ground state molecules after chirped pulse photoassociation — •Christiane P. Koch1,2, José P. Palao2,3, Eliane Luc-Koenig1, Ronnie Kosloff2, and Françoise Masnou-Seeuws1 — 1Laboratoire Aimé Cotton (CNRS), Campus d’Orsay, Bât. 505, 91405 Orsay CEDEX, France — 2Dept. of Physical Chemistry and The Fritz Haber Research Center, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel — 3Departamento de Física Fundamental II, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna 38204, Spain
It has recently been shown that photoassociation with a chirped picosecond pulse creates a molecular wave packet in the excited state which comprises a few vibrational levels and which is spatially focussed at certain times [1]. In a second step, this molecular wave packet needs to be transferred to the ground electronic state to create stable molecules. If the second pulse is short, the system is reduced to an effective two-level system. Adiabatic transfer in this effective two-level system is compared to an optimal control approach.
[1] E. Luc-Koenig, R. Kosloff, F. Masnou-Seeuws, and M. Vatasescu, Phys. Rev. A 70, 033414 (2004). E. Luc-Koenig, F. Masnou-Seeuws, and M. Vatasescu, Eur. Phys. J. D, in press (2004)