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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Multichannel selective femtosecond coherent control based on symmetry properties
Zohar Amitay1, Andrey Gandman, Lev Chuntonov
1Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. amitayz@tx.technion.ac.il
Abstract:
We present and implement a new scheme for extended multichannel selective femtosecond coherent control based on symmetry properties of the excitation channels. Here, an atomic nonresonant two-photon absorption channel is coherently incorporated in a resonance-mediated (2+1) three-photon absorption channel. By proper pulse shaping, utilizing the invariance of the two-photon absorption to specific phase transformations of the pulse, the three-photon absorption is tuned independently over an order-of-magnitude yield range for any possible two-photon absorption yield. Noticeable is a set of "two-photon dark pulses" inducing widely tunable three-photon absorption.
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