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) and Cs(7
) by femtosecond laser pulsesYamada, Hidetaka; Yokoyama, Keiichi; Teranishi, Yoshiaki*; Sugita, Akihiro; Shirai, Toshizo*; Aoyama, Makoto; Akahane, Yutaka; Inoue, Norihiro*; Ueda, Hideki*; Yamakawa, Koichi; et al.
Physical Review A, 72(6), p.063404_1 - 063404_5, 2005/12
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：31.21(Optics)A demonstration of coherent quantum control for ultrafast precise selection of closely-lying states is reported. A phase-locked pair of femtosecond laser pulses is generated through a pulse shaper to excite the ground-state cesium atom to the Cs(7) and Cs(7) states by two-photon absorption. The excited state population is measured by detecting fluorescence from each spin-orbit state. By controlling the phase-difference of the pulse pair, an ultrafast precise selection is accomplished. The contrast ratio of the maximal to minimal selection ratio exceeds 10
with the delay less than 400 fs.
Kurosaki, Yuzuru; Yokoyama, Keiichi; Teranishi, Yoshiaki
Chemical Physics, 308(3), p.325 - 334, 2005/01
Times Cited Count：23 Percentile：60.47(Chemistry, Physical)A total of 
1200 trajectories have been integrated for the two dissociation channels of formic acid, HCOOH 
H
O + CO (1) and HCOOH CO + H (2), which occur with 248 and 193 nm photons, using the direct ab initio molecular dynamics method at the RMP2(full)/cc-pVDZ level of theory. It was found that the percentage of the energy distributed to a relative translational mode in reaction 2 is much larger than that in reaction 1. This is mainly due to the difference in the geometry of transition state (TS); the HO geometry in the TS of reaction 1 was predicted to significantly deviate from the equilibrium one, whereas the CO and H geometries in the TS of reaction 2 were found to be more similar to their equilibrium ones. It was also found that the product diatomic molecules, CO and H, are both vibrationally and rotationally excited. The calculated relative population of the vibrationally excited CO for the 248 nm photodissociation was consistent with experiment.
Yokoyama, Keiichi; Teranishi, Yoshiaki; Toya, Yukio; Shirai, Toshizo; Fukuda, Yuji; Aoyama, Makoto; Akahane, Yutaka; Inoue, Norihiro*; Ueda, Hideki; Yamakawa, Koichi; et al.
Journal of Chemical Physics, 120(20), p.9446 - 9449, 2004/05
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：18.77(Chemistry, Physical)Optimal laser control for ultrafast selection of closely-lying excited states, whose energy separation is smaller than the laser bandwidth, is reported on the two-photon transition of atomic cesium; Cs(6S 7D
, J = 5/2 and 3/2). Selective excitation was carried out by pulse shaping of ultrashort laser pulses which were adaptively modulated in a closed-loop learning system handling eight parameters representing the electric field. Two-color fluorescence from the respective excited states was monitored to measure the selectivity. The fitness used in the learning algorithm was evaluated from the ratio of the fluorescence yield. After fifty generations, a pair of nearly transform-limitted pulses were obtained as an optimal pulse shape, proving the effectiveness of "Ramsey fringes" mechanism. The contrast of the selection ratio was improved by 30 % from the simple "Ramsey fringes" experiment.
Yokoyama, Keiichi; Sugita, Akihiro; Teranishi, Yoshiaki*; Itakura, Ryuji; Matsuoka, Leo; Yokoyama, Atsushi
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State-selective excitation of atomic cesium and potassium to their spin-orbit states, Cs(7D-6S) and K(4P-4S), are carried out by a coherent quantum control technique. In the weak field regime, ultrafast and highly selective excitation of cesium atoms has been successfully demonstrated with a pair of identical transform-limited pulses in which the control parameter is the phase difference between the two pulses alone. However, the excitation probability is very small (0.001) due to the weak laser field. To perform the selective excitation with large excitation probability (1), one-photon process of the K(4P-4S) transition is examined. The excitation probability is expected to become large while the selectivity degrades if the control parameter is the phase difference alone. The obtained laser intensity dependence agrees well with the theoretical prediction, indicating the excitation indeed in the non-perturbative regime.
