is applied across individual pulse, it results in negligible population of the intermediate, electronically excited state which is a valuable result in light of preserving population and minimizing the spontaneous emission losses. 

S.M. acknowledges helpful discussions with J. Ye, P. Berman, and V. Malinovsky. This research is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-0855391. 

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