Abstract
Collisions with cooled and trapped atoms have been the subject of intense investigation during the past years. Unprecedented details of the intermediate steps in the collision have been revealed.1 A remarkable feature in the ultracold system is the ability to control entrance- channel scattering flux and thereby control the exit channel of the collisional encounter. Here we present the continuation of our recent work,2 where photoassociative ionizations (PAI) of sodium atoms were suppressed by application of an optical field. The new experiments show that suppression of almost 100% is possible when high intensity3 is used and a remarkable dependence with the polarization of the suppressor laser field is observed and calculated. This rersult shows a deviation from the simple picture based on the Landau-Zener avoided crossing model when high intensity is used.
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