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Physical Review Letters

Infrared Transient Antihole Burning in the 1 Å 2 Vibrational Transition of C12 O17 in Solid N2 : Evidence for Energy-Dependent Spectral Transfer

M. Harig, Renée Charneau, Henri Dubost

Published Sep 6, 1982• 21 citations
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Abstract

The population hole burned within the inhomogeneously broadened ir fundamental absorption band of $^{12}\mathrm{C}$$^{17}\mathrm{O}$ in solid ${\mathrm{N}}_{2}$ by a narrow-band pulsed laser is detected as an antihole in the transient absorption of a tunable cw probe beam whose frequency is swept through the $v=1\ensuremath{\rightarrow}v=2$ resonance. The time development of the transient profile demonstrates that spectral diffusion is governed by an energy-dependent process, contrary to what has been observed in many disordered systems.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.49.715

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