Journal of Atomic and Molecular Physics
Excitation of lithium atoms and population trapping induced by single frequency-chirped laser pulses
Wu Su
Abstract
Using the time-dependent multilevel approach (TDML),we have calculated the coherent population transfer among the quantum states of lithium atom with different frequency-chirped laser pulses. The result shows that the population is very sensitive to the parameters of laser pulse,the population can be completely transferred to the target state and be trapped there by changing the parameters of the laser pulse.