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Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3593–3596 (1999)

Coherent Optical Control of Mössbauer Spectra

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Olga Kocharovskaya, Roman Kolesov, and Yuri Rostovtsev
Institute of Quantum Studies and Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242
and Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603600 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Received 22 December 1998; published in the issue dated 3 May 1999

A compound nuclear-electron system driven by a coherent optical field and probed at the gamma-ray Mössbauer transition is analyzed for the first time. The possibility of optical control of the Mössbauer spectra is predicted. This study provides the basis for a new branch of spectroscopy, laser-Mössbauer spectroscopy, and opens prospects for the realization of a gamma-ray laser.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3593
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3593
PACS:
42.55.Vc
 
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