Atomic electron wave packets in an electrical field
- 1 July 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 40 (1) , 485-488
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.40.485
Abstract
We have observed the periodic motion of a parabolic electron wave packet. The wave packet was created by coherent excitation with 7-ps laser pulses of several parabolic states of atomic rubidium in a dc electrical field. The dispersion of the wave packet was small because the spacing between subsequent energy levels of the Stark map is almost constant. By measuring the photoionization yield in a pump-probe experiment, as many as 10 oscillations were observed.Keywords
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