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Creation of Optical Gain and Absorption via a Virtual Single-photon Transition

J. Herrmann, M. Weger, Reto Locher, Mazyar Sabbar, P. Rivière, Ulf Saalmann, Jan Michael Rost, L. Gallmann, Ursula Keller

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present the creation and control of optical gain by interrupting the temporal evolution of the dipole response of a quantum-mechanical two-level system. Our theoretical analysis is verified by transient absorption spectroscopy in helium.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2013.jth2a.08

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