Phase-sensitive dynamics of bichromatically driven two-level atoms
- 1 March 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 49 (3) , R1519-R1522
Abstract
Observations of qualitatively different coherent transient phenomena associated with bichromatic optical excitation are reported. The effects demonstrated include the control of atomic dynamics through a variation of the initial relative phase of the driving fields and the polarization of population within atom-field dressed states. The dynamics observed are fundamentally more complex than those characteristic of monochromatically driven atoms.Keywords
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