Extremely short pulses via stark modulation of the atomic transition frequencies. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We propose a universal method to produce extremely short pulses of electromagnetic radiation in various spectral ranges. The essence of the method is a resonant interaction of radiation with atoms under the conditions of adiabatic periodic modulation of atomic transition frequencies by a far-off-resonant control laser field via dynamic Stark shift of the atomic levels and proper adjustment of the control field intensity and frequency, as well as the optical depth of the medium. The potential of the method is illustrated by an example in a hydrogenlike atomic system.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Radeonychev, Y. V., Polovinkin, V. A., & Kocharovskaya, O.

citation count

  • 32

complete list of authors

  • Radeonychev, YV||Polovinkin, VA||Kocharovskaya, Olga

publication date

  • October 2010