Laser Physics Letters
Femtosecond photon echo in dye-doped polymer film at liquid nitrogen temperature
S V Konturov, Vladimir S. Lobkov, К. М. Салихов, В. В. Самарцев, Georgy M. Safiullin, В. А. Зуйков
Abstract
The first observation is reported of the primary femtosecond photon echo at a liquid nitrogen temperature 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 echo signal decay 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. 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.