“…This technological development has been motivated by the large number of possible applications, several of which rely on coherent population transfer techniques. A partial list of such applications is: stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STI-RAP) [6][7][8][9], adiabatic rapid passage (ARP) [10], Raman chirped adiabatic passage (RCAP) [11,12], temporal coherent control (TCC) [13,14], coherent population trapping [15,16], optical control of chemical reactions [17,18], electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) [15,[19][20][21][22], efficient generation of XUV radiation [23][24][25], breakdown of dipole blockade obtained driving atoms by phase-jump pulses [26]. Moreover, recently two schemes for efficient and fast coherent population transfer have been presented [27], which use chirped and non-chirped few-cycles laser pulses.…”