TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching lasers to control molecules
AU - Judson, Richard S.
AU - Rabitz, Herschel Albert
PY - 1992/1/1
Y1 - 1992/1/1
N2 - We simulate a method to teach a laser pulse sequences to excite specified molecular states. We use a learning procedure to direct the production of pulses based on fitness information provided by a laboratory measurement device. Over a series of pulses the algorithm learns an optimal sequence. The experimental apparatus, which consists of a laser, a sample of molecules and a measurement device, acts as an analog computer that solves Schrödingers equation n/Iexactly, in real time. We simulate an apparatus that learns to excite specified rotational states in a diatomic molecule.
AB - We simulate a method to teach a laser pulse sequences to excite specified molecular states. We use a learning procedure to direct the production of pulses based on fitness information provided by a laboratory measurement device. Over a series of pulses the algorithm learns an optimal sequence. The experimental apparatus, which consists of a laser, a sample of molecules and a measurement device, acts as an analog computer that solves Schrödingers equation n/Iexactly, in real time. We simulate an apparatus that learns to excite specified rotational states in a diatomic molecule.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.1500
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.1500
M3 - Article
C2 - 10045147
AN - SCOPUS:4944220525
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 68
SP - 1500
EP - 1503
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 10
ER -