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The Journal of Chemical Physics

Control of molecular processes by a sequence of linearly chirped pulses

K. Nagaya, Yoshiaki Teranishi, Hiroki Nakamura

Published Nov 14, 2002• 15 citations
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Abstract

A new scheme of controlling molecular processes by a sequence of linearly chirped pulses is proposed and is applied to selective excitation of an energy level among closely lying ones and to complete electronic excitation of a diatomic molecule. The basic idea is quite different from the conventional ones utilizing chirped pulses in the sense that the present one does not rely on the idea of adiabatic rapid passage at all, but tries to control basic nonadiabatic transitions explicitly. Control of molecular processes can be achieved by controlling nonadiabatic transitions among Floquet (or dressed) states with use of the interference effects. The scheme can be formulated with use of the analytical theories of nonadiabatic transitions, and the proper control parameters can be estimated theoretically. Numerical demonstrations are provided to confirm the robustness of the method in comparison with the other conventional ones. Namely, the present scheme is shown to be stable against the variation of pulse area, complete and selective in population transfer, and fast to accomplish the transition. It is expected that the method can be applied to general multilevel systems and various types of wave packet dynamics. Its experimental realizability can also be expected, since linear chirping can now be relatively easily realized and manipulated.

DOI
10.1063/1.1518003

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