title: Laser control of electronic transitions of wave packet by using quadratically chirped pulses.
abstract: An effective scheme is proposed for the laser control of wave packet dynamics. It is demonstrated that by using specially designed quadratically chirped pulses, fast and nearly complete excitation of wave packet can be achieved without significant distortion of its shape. The parameters of the laser pulse can be estimated analytically from the Zhu-Nakamura theory of nonadiabatic transition. If the wave packet is not too narrow or not too broad, then the scheme is expected to be utilizable for multidimensional systems. The scheme is applicable to various processes such as simple electronic excitation, pump-dump, and selective bond breaking, and it is actually numerically demonstrated to work well by taking diatomic and triatomic molecules (LiH, NaK, H(2)O) as examples.
authors.affiliation: Department of Theoretical Studies, Institute for Molecular Science, Modioli, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan.
authors.forename: Shiyang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Alexey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kondorskiy
authors.forename: Gennady
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mil'nikov
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakamura