Phys. Rev. A 60, 1351–1362 (1999)Rotational interference in vibrational ladder climbing in NO by chirped infrared laser pulsesReceived 6 October 1998; revised 19 March 1999; published in the issue dated August 1999 Results from experiments and model calculations on rotational interference in vibrational ladder climbing in the X2Π1/2 state of NO are presented. In the low-fluence limit, the population in excited vibrational states shows an oscillatory behavior as a function of the chirp of the IR laser pulse. The interference is due to the accumulated phase difference of pathways involving different intermediate rotational states. The theoretical results match the experiments on an absolute scale. © 1999 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.60.1351
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.60.1351
PACS:
42.50.Hz, 42.65.Re, 41.60.Cr, 33.80.-b
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