Stopped reflection of an atomic wavepacket by a laser beam with an evanescent profile

authored by

Luis Roso, Luis Plaja, Luis Santos, Luis Pumares, Kazimierz Rzazewski

Abstract

The reflection of an atomic wavepacket on a laser with an evanescent profile is numerically analyzed. The nonadiabatic interaction of the atomic wavepacket with the laser makes evident, under certain conditions, the existence of a stopped excited wavepacket in the direction normal to the laser beam. The reflection is firstly studied for the unrealistic, but easier to handle analytically, case of a square-profile. The results are extended to evanescent profiles. We observe that the transversally stopped excited wavepacket remains for sufficiently nonadiabatic evolution.

External Organisation(s)

Universidad de Salamanca
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Type

Article

Journal

Optics Communications

Volume

148

Pages

376-382

No. of pages

7

ISSN

0030-4018

Publication date

15.03.1998

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00602-0 (Access: Unknown)