Lp. Yatsenko et al., STIMULATED RAMAN ADIABATIC PASSAGE WITH AMPLITUDE-MODULATED FIELDS, The European Physical Journal. D: Atomic, molecular and optical physics, 4(1), 1998, pp. 47-56
We discuss stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) for pulses whos
e amplitude is modulated with constant frequency. We discuss in detail
the case of a Lambda (Raman) system driven by two amplitude-modulated
pulses. We present a variety of numerical solutions to the relevant S
hrodinger equation, which we interpret using the Floquet theorem for t
he solution of systems of linear equations with periodic coefficients,
the concept of quasienergies, and the assumption of adiabatic evoluti
on. We find thresholds for successful population transfer and show tha
t some peculiarities of the depicted efficiency of population transfer
can be interpreted as pairs of Landau-Zener transitions in the areas
of avoided crossings of quasienergies. We provide an analytic expressi
on for the transfer efficiency in these cases. We show that the effici
ency of population transfer is much more sensitive to the population d
ecay from the upper level than in the case of smooth (non modulated) l
aser pulses. We note the applicability of the results to cases beyond
the rotating wave approximation.