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飞秒光缔合的双光子相干控制

Two-photon coherent control of femtosecond photoassociation

Christiane P. Koch, Mamadou Ndong, Ronnie Kosloff

摘要:

利用短激光脉冲的光缔合作用可以产生超冷基态分子。宽带激发似乎是驱动从两个散射原子形成处于其振动基态的分子所需的一系列激发和去激发步骤的自然选择。然而,飞秒光缔合的首次尝试受到了消除原子激发导致陷阱耗尽的要求的阻碍。另一方面,非常接近原子跃迁的分子能级将被激发。飞秒激光器的宽带宽似乎是一个障碍。为了克服宽带激光驱动窄跃迁的表面冲突,我们提出了一个双光子光缔合方案。在弱场区,可以利用光谱相位图来消除原子谱线。当激发是由一个以上的光子,在现场的不同途径可以建设性或破坏性的干扰。在强场状态下,可以应用时间相位来控制动态斯塔克位移。通过选择使能级不共振的相位来抑制原子跃迁。在弱场和强场两种情况下,我们得到了原子双光子暗态的解析解。因此,双光子激发可能为光缔合的相干控制铺平道路。最终,这种方案的成功将取决于激发电子态和跃迁偶极矩的细节。我们探索了碱金属和碱土金属二聚体的双光子飞秒光缔合的可能性,并以钙为例进行了详细的研究。

英文摘要:

Photoassociation with short laser pulses has been proposed as a technique to create ultracold ground state molecules. A broad-band excitation seems the natural choice to drive the series of excitation and deexcitation steps required to form a molecule in its vibronic ground state from two scattering atoms. First attempts at femtosecond photoassociation were, however, hampered by the requirement to eliminate the atomic excitation leading to trap depletion. On the other hand, molecular levels very close to the atomic transition are to be excited. The broad bandwidth of a femtosecond laser then appears to be rather an obstacle. To overcome the ostensible conflict of driving a narrow transition by a broad-band laser, we suggest a two-photon photoassociation scheme. In the weak-field regime, a spectral phase pattern can be employed to eliminate the atomic line. When the excitation is carried out by more than one photon, different pathways in the field can be interfered constructively or destructively. In the strong-field regime, a temporal phase can be applied to control dynamic Stark shifts. The atomic transition is suppressed by choosing a phase which keeps the levels out of resonance. We derive analytical solutions for atomic two-photon dark states in both the weak-field and strong-field regime. Two-photon excitation may thus pave the way toward coherent control of photoassociation. Ultimately, the success of such a scheme will depend on the details of the excited electronic states and transition dipole moments. We explore the possibility of two-photon femtosecond photoassociation for alkali and alkaline-earth metal dimers and present a detailed study for the example of calcium.

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