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Chinese Optics Letters

Coherent control of two-photon absorption of Pr3＋ ion by shaped ultrashort laser pulses

程文静, 张诗按, 贾天卿, 马婧, 冯东海, S Rộng

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

Enhancing the photoluminescence and depressing the background emission are important problems in rare earth ion-doped materials. In this letter, the two-photon absorption (TPA) probability in a Pr3+ ion system is enhanced by a factor of 12.3 by a ∏-phase step scanning of ultrashort laser pulses. This level is significantly higher than that achieved by a transform-limit pulse. However, the laser intensity of shaped pulse is reduced to 37% of the initial transform-limited pulse. In this method, the TPA probability can also be reduced to 58%. Furthermore, the effect of the shift of the intermediate energy level and the bandwidth of final states on TPA probability is discussed.

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