2009 Volume 78 Issue 2 Pages 136-140
The technique of coherent control has been applied in various studies including the control of chemical reactions, and the manipulation of quantum bits in information technologies. In this review, I will present an application of the attosecond-precision control of the delay time between a pair of femtosecond laser pulses to manipulate the interference of vibrational wave packets in diatomic molecules. The information on the wave packet can be retrieved by a nanosecond (ns) probe pulse and a femtosecond (fs) probe pulse. Furthermore, it is possible to obtain a high-resolution spatiotemporal image of the wave packet motion by scanning the wavelength of the fs probe pulse.
