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Chinese Physics B

Laser pulse design for coherent control of Rydberg lithium atoms

Xianzhou Zhang, Wu Su-Ling, Lijuan Jiang, Ma Huan-Qiang, Guang-Rui Jia

Published Aug 1, 2010• 3 citations
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Abstract

Using the time-dependent multilevel approach (TDML), this paper studies the dynamics of coherent control of Rydberg lithium atoms and demonstrates that Rydberg lithium atoms can be transferred to states of higher principal quantum number by exposing them to specially designed frequency-chirped laser pulses. The population transfer from n = 70 to n = 75 states of lithium atoms with efficiency of more than 90% is achieved by means of the sequential adiabatic rapid passages. The results agree well with the experimental ones and show that the coherent control of the population transfer from the lower n to the higher n states can be accomplished by the optimization of the chirping parameters and the intensity of laser field.

DOI
10.1088/1674-1056/19/8/083101

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