INELASTIC COLLISIONS OF DRESSED ATOMS
David E. Pritchard, Alan L. Migdall, Robert E. Walkup
Two level atoms which are subject to monochromatic laser radiation may be described using dressed states, which are time-varying coherent superpositions of these two levels. We argue that collisions can take these dressed atoms directly to a third level which is well separated in energy from the two radiatively coupled levels and we show how to express the rate for such collisions in terms of collision rates for the bare atomic levels. Data which verify these predictions are presented for Na-He collisions.
Le Journal de Physique Colloques•Jan 1, 1985•0 citations