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Advanced Photonics
Vol. 5, Issue 1, 016002 (2023)

Rydberg state excitation in molecules manipulated by bicircular two-color laser pulses

Wenbin Zhang^{1、2、3、*}, Yongzhe Ma¹, Chenxu Lu¹, Fei Chen¹, Shengzhe Pan¹, Peifen Lu¹, Hongcheng Ni^1、4、*, and Jian Wu^{1、4、5、*}

Author Affiliations

¹East China Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Shanghai, China

²Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Department of Physics, Garching, Germany

³Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany

⁴Shanxi University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Taiyuan, China

⁵CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-Intense Laser Science, Shanghai, China

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Wenbin Zhang, Yongzhe Ma, Chenxu Lu, Fei Chen, Shengzhe Pan, Peifen Lu, Hongcheng Ni, Jian Wu. Rydberg state excitation in molecules manipulated by bicircular two-color laser pulses[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2023, 5(1): 016002 Copy Citation Text

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