Preparation of Phase-Locked Molecular Quantum States

Abstract

To coherently control molecular collisions using a superposition of molecular quantum states, part of the DURIP equipment money was utilized to fabricate a high vacuum molecular beam reaction chamber. To obtain high resolution angular distributions, the reaction chamber has been designed with a velocity map imaging facility. The velocity map imaging comprises a couple of ion lenses, a flight tube and a high-resolution position sensitive RoentDek delay line detector. Another part of the DURIP equipment money was also utilized to acquire an injection-locked Q-switched Nd+3:YAG laser which provides both the nanosecond single-mode pump for the Stark induced adiabatic Raman passage (SARP) as well as the pump for the single-mode pulsed dye laser amplifier. Using this equipment we are now ready to demonstrate for the first time quantum interference in a single molecular collision.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 04, 2014
Accession Number
ADA623077

Entities

People

  • Nandini Mukherjee

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agreements
  • Amplifiers
  • Delay Lines
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dye Lasers
  • Engineering
  • High Resolution
  • High Vacuum
  • Laser Pulses
  • Lasers
  • Liquid Dye Lasers
  • Molecular Beams
  • Quantum States
  • Scattering
  • Students
  • Yag Lasers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Quantum Computing