Suppression of Excited-Atom Two-Photon Ionization due to Rabi Oscillations between the Excited and a Lower State

• Authors: A. Grudka , R. Parzyński
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Optical resonance between the initially occupied excited atomic state and some lower lying state is shown to be a suppressor of two-photon ionization from this excited state via near-threshold Rydberg states because of Rabi oscillations between the resonantly coupled states.

Keywords

EN

32.80.Rm; 42.50.Hz

Discipline

• 42.50.Hz: Strong-field excitation of optical transitions in quantum systems; multiphoton processes; dynamic Stark shift(for multiphoton ionization and excitation of atoms and molecules, see 32.80.Rm, and 33.80.Rv, respectively)
• 32.80.Rm: Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2001
• Volume: 99
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 257-265

Dates

published

2001-02

received

2000-12-14

Contributors

author

A. Grudka

• Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland

author

R. Parzyński

• Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.99.257