STUDY OF THE ORIGIN OF THE PHASE-LAG BETWEEN SIGNALS IN COHERENT LASER CONTROL

It is shown that the origin of the phase lag between signals correspon ding to photoionization and photodissociation of Rydberg levels of HI observed in a recent coherent control experiment [Zhu et al., Science 270, 77 (1995)] is not the difference in the molecular phase of the tw o processes. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.