Driving wave packet recurrences with optimally modulated laser pulses

Boyd M. Goodson, Debabrata Goswami, Herschel Rabitz, Warren S. Warren

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Abstract

In the weak-field limit, laser pulses optimized to induce vibrational wave packet recurrences in excited state potentials were calculated for Morse oscillators and for a real system [the X1Σ+ and A 3II(1) states of IBr]. The performance of the optimized pulses was studied via simulated wave packet propagation. Such optimal light fields may be computationally generated given only the form of the electronic potential surfaces, knowledge of the particular ground state supplying population, and simple molecular constants. Thus it should be possible to use the modulation of light fields experimentally optimized to achieve recurrences in order to obtain substantial information regarding previously uncharacterized potential surfaces in both diatomic and polyatomic molecules. Moreover, it should be possible to generalize this approach to the strong-field limit.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)5081-5090
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Chemical Physics
Volume112
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 15 2000

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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