Storage of optical pulse shapes in spectrally ordered populations
William Randall Babbitt, Yu Bai, T. W. Mossberq
Early in the study of nuclear magnetic resonance, it was recognized that coherent transient signals could possess shapes highly correlated with the radio frequency pulses used to generate them.1 Similar results were observed in the case of optical coherent transients.2 The information necessary to recreate the excitation pulse shapes has traditionally been seen to reside in the polarization of the sample or in the population difference between two energy states. Information so stored is constrained to relax at rates determined by the transverse T2 or the longitudinal T1, relaxation times of the excited nuclear or optical transition. Owing to the shortness of T1 and T2, coherent transient pulse shape storage has been viewed previously as having limited utility.
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics•Jan 1, 1985•0 citations