Abstract
We describe a technique designed to excite a classical-limit state of an atom. A picosecond electric field pulse converts a circular state into a Rydberg wave packet which is localized in all three dimensions and travels along a classical Kepler orbit with arbitrary ellipticity.
- Received 29 December 1993
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.636
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