Dynamics of multilevel laser excitation: Three-level atoms
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 15 (4), 1640-1647
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.15.1640
Abstract
We display the time dependence of populations in coherently excited three-level atoms. In particular we examine the relationship between ion production and the dynamical parameters: Rabi frequencies, detunings, and loss rate.Keywords
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