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European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC)

Phase-Locked Photon Echoes at 10-fs Time Scale

Maxim S. Pshenichnikov, Wim P. de Boeij, D. A. Wiersma

Published Jan 1, 1996• 0 citations
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Abstract

Phase-locked optical coherence experiments were performed on the 10 fs time scale. A 13 fs cavity-dumped Ti:sapphire laser was considered as an ideal source to extend these experiments to the 10 fs time scale due to extremely high amplitude and spectral stability. Femtosecond phase-locked heterodyne detected femtosecond stimulated photon echo (PL-HSPE) proved to be very useful for exploring the details of the optical dynamics of the optical system. The PL-HSPE involves a six-dimensional experiment governed by three times between four fs pulses, two relative phases between paired pulses, and signal amplitude.

DOI
10.1109/eqec.1996.561891

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We demonstrate coherent control over interference between different Liouville-space pathways that describe the generation of the nonlinear optical polarization in a stimulated photon echo. This control was exercised by phase-locking of the excitation pulses and observed in the heterodyne detected echo signal. A theoretical analysis of the effect is presented and found to be in good agreement with the obtained results. The relation between this novel time-domain interference effect and the pressure-induced extra resonance in four-wave mixing spectroscopy is discussed.
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It is demonstrated that enhanced mode suppression in stimulated photon echo experiments can be obtained by diagonal time gating of the echo. This technique is especially important when the optical dynamics of the system is non-Markovian. A two-mode Brownian oscillator model is used to analyze the effect of time gating on the stimulated photon echo. The method is demonstrated on a dye solution of DTTCI in ethylene glycol at room temperature. Experimentally, time gating of the echo is accomplished by means of femtosecond phase-locked heterodyne detected stimulated photon echo. The vibrational dynamics in this system are explored by conventional stimulated photon echo experiments. Especially stimulated photon echo-maximum shift measurements are found to be particularly useful.