Interferences In Resonant Laser-Atom Pump-and-Probe Ionization Process

V. D. RODRÍGUEZ; M. G. BUSTAMANTE; R.O. BARRACHINA

Palaiseau

Conferencia; The 23rd International Conference on Atomic Physics ICAP 2012; 2012

Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau

We theoretically investigate a pump-and-probe laser atom setup. Similarly to a recent proposal we use a single strong laser pulse in resonance with the transition between the initial ground state with and an excited state. The laser serves as a pump creating a coherent state mostly described by Rabi flopping between the two resonant states. Different from previous work, the same laser pulse probes the electron by ionizing it through a concurrent multiphoton process.