title: Simple route to strong-field coherent control.
abstract: Coherent-control schemes to manipulate weak-field interactions are generally invalid at stronger fields, since strong-field interactions are accompanied by level power broadenings and level shifts that usually elude simple analytical treatments. Here we show that a broad subgroup of weak-field solutions (those with real fields, i.e., fields with only one quadrature in the complex plane) can be extended to the strong-field regime while retaining their properties. The salient feature of these fields is a symmetry that cancels out power broadening effects. Such fields can be generated from ultrashort coherent pulses or from incoherent broadband down-converted light. Weak-field coherent-control approaches based on these solutions can therefore be extended to the strong-field regime as we demonstrate in a two-photon absorption experiment in atomic cesium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: Nirit
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dudovich
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Polack
authors.forename: Avi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pe'er
authors.forename: Yaron
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Silberberg