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Phys. Rev. A 54, R4637–R4640 (1996)

Semianalytic treatment of two-color photoassociation spectroscopy and control of cold atoms

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John L. Bohn
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics and Quantum Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80309

P. S. Julienne
Atomic Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899

Received 6 August 1996; published in the issue dated December 1996

We present semianalytic expressions for scattering probabilities of cold trapped atoms in the presence of two weak, independently tunable laser fields, both tuned near molecular resonances. We consider two experimental situations. In the first, an Autler-Townes doublet appears and is shown in certain circumstances to exhibit unequal peak heights. In the second, the pair of lasers is employed to produce translationally cold ground-state molecules, in which case our formula suggests the optimal conditions for such production. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.54.R4637
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.54.R4637
PACS:
34.50.Rk, 32.80.Pj, 33.70.Ca