Optical nutation and free induction of degenerate systems
Aleksey I. Alekseev, Ashat M. Basharov
A theoretical investigation is made of the coherent optical transient phenomena produced by the phase switching method in degenerate gaseous systems in the case of arbitrary detuning. The effect of the light wave polarisation on optical nutation and free induction is studied. Echo manifestations in the form of edge echoes, nutation echoes and induction echoes that accompany light wave phase switching are established to differ from the previously studied ones. Spectroscopic applications of the results obtained are discussed.
Journal of Physics B Atomic and Molecular Physics•Nov 28, 1982•5 citations