Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes
on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field …

The observation of coherent dynamics ensuing from the excitation of molecular systems by
femtosecond laser pulses is at the heart of femtochemistry. The time-dependent evolution of …

A" Schrödinger cat''-like state of matter was generated at the single atom level. A trapped
9Be+ ion was laser-cooled to the zero-point energy and then prepared in a superposition of …

This book presents and describes a series of unusual and striking strong-field phenomena
concerning atoms and free electrons. Some of these phenomena are: multiphoton …

Ultrafast-dynamics studies and femtosecond-pulse metrology both rely on the nonlinear
processes induced solely by an incident light pulse. Extending these approaches to the …

This review summarizes progress in coherent control as well as relevant recent
achievements, highlighting, among several different schemes of coherent control, wave …

This book discusses quantum optics and investigates the quantum properties of interactions
between atoms and laser fields. It is divided into three parts. Part I introduces the elementary …

A train of attosecond pulses, synchronized to an infrared (IR) laser field, is used to create a
series of electron wave packets (EWPs) that are below the ionization threshold in. helium …

Temporal coherent control of an excited state wave packet is produced by a sequence of two
identical ultrashort laser pulses. We show theoretically and experimentally in the case of the …

We have completely determined the amplitude and phase of a quantum wave packet. The
wave packet was shaped using a programmable optical pulse. Phase information comes …