Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Efficient selective excitation in optically thick extensive media by adiabatic population transfer
Vasily G. Arkhipkin, Д. В. Манушкин, V. P. Timofeev, Ivan V. Timofeev
Abstract
In this work, the feature of spatio-temporal evolution of tow partially overlapped short pulses of counterintuitive sequence in a medium of three-level absorbing atoms in conditions of adiabatic transfer of population are investigated. The analytic solution is constructed. It is shown, that selective excitation of two-photon resonant state with a near-unity probability is conserved on the length of medium, which is considerably greater than the absorption length of a weak probe pulse in the absence of a coupling pulse at the adjacent transition.