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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Imaging Rydberg States of Atoms and Molecules with a Weak DC Field

Seyedreza Larimian, Xiaochun Gong, Wenbin Zhang, Andrius Baltuška, Markus Kitzler, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu, Xinhua Xie

Published Jun 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

High-lying Rydberg atoms and molecules exhibit unusually long-range interactions, and the strongly enhanced interaction between Rydberg particles makes them unique for a variety of applications, ranging from quantum optics to chemistry [1]. Recent studies revealed that such high-lying Rydberg particles can be formed through electron trapping in strong field interaction with atoms and molecules [2, 3, 4]. In this submission, we report on imaging of high-lying Rydberg electron wave packets populated in such interactions.

DOI
10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2019.8873380

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