Adiabatic population transfer in a three-level system driven by delayed laser pulses
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 40 (11) , 6741-6744
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.40.6741
Abstract
We give a simple analytic solution that describes a novel method for population transfer in a three-level system driven by delayed pulses and which accounts for recent experimental results. This solution describes a procedure that is counterintuitive, and yet it is shown to be, in fact, one of the simplest solutions for multilevel systems arising from the adiabatic theorem. Its possible application to many-level systems is suggested.Keywords
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