Optimal laser pulse design for transferring the coherent nuclear wave packet of H${}_2^{+}$

Abstract

Within the Franck-Condon approximation, the single ionization of H${}_2$ leaves H${}_2^{+}$ in a coherent superposition of 19 nuclear vibrational states. We numerically design an optimal laser pulse train to transfer such a coherent nuclear wave packet to the ground vibrational state of H${}_2^{+}$. The simulation results show that the population of the ground state after the transfer is more than 91%. Frequency analysis of the designed optimal pulse reveals that the transfer principle is mainly an anti-Stokes transition, i.e., the H${}_2^{+}$ in $1s{\sigma }_g$ with excited nuclear vibrational states is first pumped to $2p{\sigma }_g$ state by the pulse at an appropriate time, and then dumped back to $1s{\sigma }_g$ with lower excited or ground vibrational states.

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