photoassociate

Verb

photoassociate (third-person singular simple present photoassociates, present participle photoassociating, simple past and past participle photoassociated)

1. To associate atoms by means of photoassociation
   • Starting with ultracold #123;87#125;Rb atoms, we apply pulses of frequency-chirped light to first photoassociate the atoms into excited molecules and then, later in the chirp, de-excite these molecules into a high vibrational level of the lowest triplet state...173003 (2015), J. L. Carini, S. Kallush, R. Kosloff, P. L. Gould, “Enhancement of Ultracold Molecule Formation Using Shaped Nanosecond Frequency Chirps”, in Phys. Rev. Lett., volume 173003