Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Femtosecond photon echo in dye-doped polymer film at liquid nitrogen and room temperatures
Vladimir S. Lobkov, К. М. Салихов, В. В. Самарцев, Georgy M. Safiullin, В. А. Зуйков
Abstract
The first observation is reported of the primary and stimulated femtosecond photon echoes at liquid nitrogen and room temperatures in a dye-doped polymer film at a wavelength of 780 nm. Echo signals were generated by pulses with the duration of 130 fs. The primary echo signal decay at a liquid nitrogen temperature can not be described by a simple exponential function. There is a fast decay region below 250-300 fs and a slow decay region at longer time intervals. The decay of primary echo signal at room temperature demonstrates complex behavior caused by the presence of the phonon-side band in the optical band of impurity centers. There were also detected signals of the self-diffraction of exciting pulses on a nonequilibrium population difference grating, induced in resonant medium by these pulses.