Studying ultrafast Rabi dynamics with a short-wavelength seeded free-electron laser

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10950v1
• Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:08:04 GMT
• Title: Studying ultrafast Rabi dynamics with a short-wavelength seeded free-electron laser
• Authors: Saikat Nandi, Edvin Olofsson, Mattias Bertolino, Stefanos Carlstr\"om, Felipe Zapata, David Busto, Carlo Callegari, Michele Di Fraia, Per Eng-Johnsson, Raimund Feifel, Guillaume Gallician, Mathieu Gisselbrecht, Sylvain Maclot, Lana Neori\v{c}i\'c, Jasper Peschel, Oksana Plekan, Kevin C. Prince, Richard J. Squibb, Shiyang Zhong, Philipp V. Demekhin, Michael Meyer, Catalin Miron, Laura Badano, Miltcho B. Danailov, Luca Giannessi, Michele Manfredda, Filippo Sottocorona, Marco Zangrando, Jan Marcus Dahlstr\"om
• Abstract summary: We show that femtosecond extreme-ultraviolet pulses from a seeded free-electron laser can drive Rabi oscillations between the ground state and an excited state in helium atoms. The measured photoemission signal revealed an Autler-Townes doublet as well as an avoided crossing. Our results offer opportunities to carry out ultrafast manipulation of coherent processes at short wavelengths using free-electron lasers.
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• Abstract: Rabi oscillations are periodic modulations of populations in two-level systems interacting with a time-varying field. They are ubiquitous in physics with applications in different areas such as photonics, nano-electronics, electron microscopy, and quantum information. While the theory developed by Rabi was intended for fermions in gyrating magnetic fields, Autler and Townes realized that it could also be used to describe coherent light-matter interaction within the rotating wave approximation\cite. Although intense nanometer-wavelength light-sources have been available for more than a decade, Rabi dynamics at such short wavelengths have not been observed directly. Here we show that femtosecond extreme-ultraviolet pulses from a seeded free-electron laser can drive Rabi oscillations between the ground state and an excited state in helium atoms. The measured photoemission signal revealed an Autler-Townes doublet as well as an avoided crossing, phenomena that are both trademarks of quantum optics. Using theoretical analyses that go beyond the strong-field approximation, we found that the ultrafast build-up of the doublet structure follows from a quantum interference effect between resonant and non-resonant photoionization pathways. Given the recent availability of intense attosecond and few-femtosecond extreme-ultraviolet pulses, our results offer opportunities to carry out ultrafast manipulation of coherent processes at short wavelengths using free-electron lasers.

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