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Changes of photon echo by electromagnetic pulses in LaF 3 :Pr 3+

Шегеда Анатолий Михайлович, B. M. Khabibullin, V. N. Lisin, В. А. Зуйков, Самарцев Виталий Владимирович

Published May 10, 1996• 0 citations

Abstract

A strong decreasing of the intensity of the inverse 2-pulse, 3-pulse and long lived 3-pulse photon echo was observed when a current pulse passed through the strip evaporated onto the surface of the sample (current pulse was applied before or after the laser pulses). The strip is heated by the current pulse and there is the voltage difference at the ends of the strip. The voltage difference creates instantly the nonuniform electric field in the region of optical excitation so the echo intensity is decreased by the short-lived nonuniform line width rise. The line width rise is differentiated for the distinct type ion sites in the LaF3 unit cell. The strip current-heating gives rise to a phonon pulse. When phonon pulse reaches the optically excited volume it causes the shift of energy levels of Pr3+ ions, effecting a phase accumulation and the echo intensity change as a consequence.

DOI: 10.1117/12.239465

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A strong decreasing of the intensity of the inverse 2-pulse, 3-pulse and long lived 3-pulse photon echo was observed when a current pulse passed through the strip evaporated onto the surface of the sample (current pulse was applied before or after the laser pulses). The strip is heated by the current pulse and there is the voltage difference at the ends of the strip. The voltage difference creates instantly the nonuniform electric field in the region of optical excitation so the echo intensity is decreased by the short-lived nonuniform line width rise. The line width rise is differentiated for the distinct type ion sites in the LaF3 unit cell. The strip current-heating gives rise to a phonon pulse. When phonon pulse reaches the optically excited volume it causes the shift of energy levels of Pr3+ ions, effecting a phase accumulation and the echo intensity change as a consequence.

Multipulse photon echoes are observed from

{\mathrm{LaF}}_{3}

:

{\mathrm{Pr}}^{3+}

and are shown to be primarily stimulated echoes. The various contributions to the echoes were measured using a three-pulse photon-echo sequence that resolved the image of the echo generated by the first two pulses, and the echo generated by the second and third pulses and that of the first and third pulses from the stimulated echo. By use of a theoretical model of Shoemaker [in Laser and Coherence Spectroscopy, edited by J. I. Steinfeld (Plenum, New York, 1978)] and relaxation theory of Hu and Hartmann [Phys. Rev. B 9, 1 (1974)], the image echo contributions to the third echo is shown to be less than 10% of the total for the pulse widths and Rabi frequencies used in the measurements. As a result, multipulse photon echoes will find limited use in measuring coherence decay until very short high-intensity pulses are used to excite the echoes.

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We have observed a significant ``instantaneous spectral diffusion'' phenomenon in photon-echo experiments on

{\mathrm{Tb}}^{3+}

:

{\mathrm{LiYF}}_{4}

. This laser-induced effect makes observed optical dephasing rates intensity dependent and can also contribute a frequency dependence to the measured rates. A change in the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction between

{\mathrm{Tb}}^{3+}

echo ions and surrounding

{\mathrm{Tb}}^{3+}

ions occurs when surrounding ions are excited. This causes an instantaneous shift in the optical frequency of the echo ion that lasts for

{\mathit{T}}_{1}

\ensuremath{\sim}1 msec. Frequency shifts caused by the first excitation pulse have no effect on echo rephasing (

{\mathit{T}}_{1}

\ensuremath{\gg}

{\mathit{T}}_{2}

), but those caused by the second pulse prevent proper echo rephasing. A summary is given of other ion-lattice and ion-ion interactions that can cause similar laser-induced effects in a wide variety of insulating compounds. There is potential for probing the nature of inhomogeneous broadening.