Extended Data Fig. 1: Continued formation of products at high ODT intensities.
From: Photo-excitation of long-lived transient intermediates in ultracold reactions
Steady-state K2+ (red circles) and Rb2+ (blue circles) ion counts at ODT light intensities in the 11.3–46.2 kW/cm2 range, normalized by the number of experimental cycles (~ 80 for each data point). The error bars represent shot noise. The dashed lines indicate the levels to which the ion counts plateau, obtained by averaging, within each dataset, the values of the points at ODT intensities larger than 15 kW/cm2. (Inset) Timing schemes of the ODT (red and blue) and the pulsed UV ionization laser (purple) used for the measurements presented here. The red (blue) trace corresponds to a high (low) duty cycle modulation of the ODT. The instantaneous ODT intensity, I, is inversely proportional to the duty cycle, while the time-averaged ODT intensity, Iavg is constant for all measurements.
