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Optimal laser pulse design for transferring the coherent nuclear wave packet of H$_2^+$

Optics 2015-06-15 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

Within the Franck-Condon approximation, the single ionization of H2_2 leaves H2+_2^+ in a coherent superposition of 19 nuclear vibrational states. We numerically design an optimal laser pulse train to transfer such a coherent nuclear wave packet to the ground vibrational state of H2+_2^+. The simulation results show that the population of the ground state after the transfer is more than 91%. Frequency analysis of the designed optimal pulse reveals that the transfer principle is mainly an anti-Stokes transition, i.e., the H2+_2^+ in 1sσg1s\sigma_g with excited nuclear vibrational states is first pumped to 2pσg2p\sigma_g state by the pulse at an appropriate time, and then dumped back to 1sσg1s\sigma_g with lower excited or ground vibrational states.

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@article{arxiv.1303.3957,
  title  = {Optimal laser pulse design for transferring the coherent nuclear wave packet of H$_2^+$},
  author = {Jun Zhang and Feng He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.3957},
  year   = {2015}
}