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Photon echo at the excitation of a medium by extremely short and resonant pulses

V. Y. Man'kov, A. Y. Parkhomenko, С. В. Сазонов

Published Sep 26, 1997• 0 citations

Abstract

The effect of two-pulse photon echoes at the complicated action on a two-level medium with large inhomogeneous broadening of supremely short and quasiresonant pulses is investigated. Two versions of the action sequence of both pulses are considered. It is shown that the temporal properties of the echo signal are depended largely on the action order of indicated pulses. The effect of suppression of the optical echoes in the both cases at the action on a medium of the supremely short zeroth 'area' pulse is predicted. The qualitative procedure of definition of the complicated echoes spatial properties has been proposed and applied. It is shown that in indicated cases the diagrams of the echo signal intensity direction are not so peaked as in the case of common light echo.

DOI: 10.1117/12.287658

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