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Interaction of a two-state system with a train of short pulses has attractive applications in various areas of atomic and molecular physics, such as sub-natural linewidth spectroscopy. We present a non-perturbative analytical study of coherent excitation of a two-state system by N consecutive equally spaced identical pulses. Assuming that relaxation is not present or can be neglected we have derived general closed-form relations between the evolution-matrix elements in the cases of one and N pulses.
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Vitanov, N.V., Knight, P.L. (1996). Coherent Excitation of Two-Level Atoms by Pulse Trains. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_134
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