Short-Time-Interval Behavior of Photon Echoes in Ruby near Level Crossings
Alvin D Compaan, L. Q. Lambert, Isaac D. Abella
The behavior of photon echoes near level anticrossings is described in terms of the magnetic-field-dependent mixing parameters. The general features of level-crossing behavior are obscured for most cases in dilute ruby and are dominated instead by strong spin-dependent decay resulting from Cr-Al interactions. However, new experiments at short time separation ($\ensuremath{\tau}=32$ nsec) between pulses have permitted observation of the predicted photon-echo anticrossing signals in ruby, and may be applied to other atomic systems.
Physical Review A•Sep 1, 1973•3 citations