Coherent Rabi oscillations in a molecular system and sub-diffraction-limited pattern generation Academic Article

abstract

• 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd. The resolution of a photolithography and optical imaging system is restricted by the diffraction limit. Coherent Rabi oscillations have been shown to be able to overcome the diffraction limit in a simple two-level atomic system (Z Liao, M Al-amri, and M S Zubairy 2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 183601). In this paper, we numerically calculate the wave packet dynamics of a molecular system interacting with an ultrashort laser pulse and show that coherent Rabi oscillations in a molecular system are also possible. Moreover, a sub-diffraction-limited pattern can be generated in this system by introducing spatially modulated Rabi oscillations. We also discuss several techniques to improve the visibility of the sub-diffraction-limited pattern. Our result may have important applications in super-resolution optical lithography and optical imaging.

authors

• Zubairy, Muhammad

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Liao, Z., Al-Amri, M., & Zubairy, M. S.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Liao, Zeyang||Al-Amri, M||Zubairy, M Suhail

publication date

• April 2015

publisher

• IOP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics  Journal

keywords

• Coherent Rabi Oscillations
• Sub-diffraction-limited
• Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1088/0953-4075/48/10/105101

start page

• 105101

end page

• 105101

volume

• 48

issue

• 10