Population transfer by femtosecond laser pulses in a ladder-type atomic system
Fan Xi-Jun(樊锡君)a)†, Li Ai-Yun(李爱云)a), Tong Dian-Min(仝殿民)b), and Liu Cheng-Pu(刘呈普)c)
a College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China; bSchool of Physics and Microelectronics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China; cInstitute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
Abstract The population transfer in a ladder-type atomic system driven by linearly polarized sech-shape femtosecond laser pulses is investigated by numerically solving Schrödinger equation without including the rotating wave approximation (RWA). It is shown that population transfer is mainly determined by the Rabi frequency (strength) of the driving laser field and the chirp rate, and that the ratio of the dipole moments and the pulse width also have a prominent effect on the population transfer. By choosing appropriate values of the above parameters, complete population transfer can be realized.
Received: 06 November 2007
Revised: 26 December 2007
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Fund: Project supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No 2006CB806003), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (Grant No Y2006A21),the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10675076) and State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
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Fan Xi-Jun(樊锡君), Li Ai-Yun(李爱云), Tong Dian-Min(仝殿民), and Liu Cheng-Pu(刘呈普) Population transfer by femtosecond laser pulses in a ladder-type atomic system 2008 Chin. Phys. B 17 2522
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