Microwave multiphoton Rabi oscillations
- 1 December 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 48 (6) , 4742-4749
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.48.4742
Abstract
We have made direct observations of microwave multiphoton Rabi oscillations between two Rydberg states in potassium in the strong-radiation-field regime, where a perturbative treatment of the atom-field interaction becomes invalid. The results of measurements of the Rabi oscillation frequency are presented and compared with results calculated using Floquet theory, which predicts a very different field dependence for the Rabi frequency than is typical in the perturbation-theory limit.Keywords
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