Quantum Control of Wave Packet Evolution with Tailored Femtosecond Pulses. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Using theory to guide the choice of pulse shape, we have synthesized frequency-chirped laser pulses and used them to control the evolution of vibrational wave packets on the B excited state of iodine. A negatively chirped pulse produces a wave packet at the target time localized about an internuclear position and momentum of our choice. An approximately time-reversed pulse, however, produces a delocalized wave packet. The experimental results are in very good qualitative agreement with quantum simulations. 1995 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Kohler, B., Yakovlev, V. V., Che, J., Krause, J. L., Messina, M., Wilson, K. R., ... Yan, Y.

citation count

  • 288

complete list of authors

  • Kohler, B||Yakovlev, VV||Che, J||Krause, JL||Messina, M||Wilson, KR||Schwentner, N||Whitnell, RM||Yan, Y

publication date

  • April 1995