Protecting and accelerating adiabatic passage with time-delayed pulse sequences.

@article{Sampedro2016ProtectingAA,
  title={Protecting and accelerating adiabatic passage with time-delayed pulse sequences.},
  author={Pablo Cuesta Sampedro and Bo Y Chang and Ignacio R. Sola},
  journal={Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP},
  year={2016},
  volume={18 19},
  pages={
          13443-8
        }
}
Using numerical simulations of two-photon electronic absorption with femtosecond pulses in Na2 we show that: (i) it is possible to avoid the characteristic saturation or dumped Rabi oscillations in the yield of absorption by time-delaying the laser pulses; (ii) it is possible to accelerate the onset of adiabatic passage by using the vibrational coherence starting in a wave packet; and (iii) it is possible to prepare the initial wave packet in order to achieve full state-selective transitions… 
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