COHERENT PULSE-PROPAGATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF RYDBERG WAVE-PACKETS

Authors
ARLT J WEISS C TOROSYAN G BEIGANG R
Citation
J. Arlt et al., COHERENT PULSE-PROPAGATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF RYDBERG WAVE-PACKETS, Physical review letters, 79(24), 1997, pp. 4774-4777
Citations number
11
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
79
Issue
24
Year of publication
1997
Pages
4774 - 4777
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)79:24<4774:CPATDO>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
The pulse reshaping of femtosecond laser pulses tuned to Rydberg trans itions of strontium vapor is observed experimentally. We show theoreti cally that their shape closely reflects the dynamics of Rydberg wave p ackets induced by the pulses. The decay and compression of Rydberg wav e packets excited by both Fourier limited and chirped fs pulses is pre sented.