Schematic of Coherent Control of Optical Phonons (IMAGE)

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Schematic of Coherent Control of Optical Phonons

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Coherent optical phonons are coherently controlled by a pair of ultrashort optical pulses. |g> and |e> indicate the electronic ground and excited states and |0> and |1> indicate zero- and one-phonon state, respectively.

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Kazutaka G. Nakamura

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