Laser Physics Letters
Femtosecond photon echo in dye-doped polymer film at room temperature
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 65 fs. The primary echo signal decay at liquid nitrogen and room temperatures can not be described by a simple exponential function. 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.