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Applied Physics Letters

Laser beam modulator and pulse former with an adjustable transmission-voltage characteristic provided by persistent spectral hole burning

P. Schätz, Udo Bogner, Max Maier

Published Nov 3, 1986• 15 citations
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Abstract

The transmission of a polymer film doped with dye molecules is modulated by voltage-induced changes of the population in the center of a persistent spectral hole. It is demonstrated that the transmission versus voltage characteristic of the sample is adjustable to the requirements of the desired application by applying a selected time-dependent voltage during spectral hole burning. Various characteristic curves have been tailor made and used for modulation and pulse forming of laser beams.

DOI
10.1063/1.97443

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The transmission of a polymer film doped with dye molecules is modulated by voltage-induced changes of the population in the center of a persistent spectral hole. It is demonstrated that the transmission versus voltage characteristic of the sample is adjustable to the requirements of the desired application by applying a selected time-dependent voltage during spectral hole burning. Various characteristic curves have been tailor made and used for modulation and pulse forming of laser beams.
The electric field domain is used as a storage dimension in optical data storage by persistent spectral hole burning. The memory locations in the electric field domain are addressed with the voltage applied to the sample consisting of the amorphous polymer polyvinyl-butyral doped with the dye 9-amino acridine. The information is written by burning spectral holes at different electric field strengths with a HeCd laser and read by detecting the presence or absence of holes with weak laser intensity.
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Spatio-temporal holography using persistent spectral hole-burning in dye molecules embedded in plastic films is promising for applications such as femtosecond pulse shaping, data storage or phase conjugation. In addition to the common 2 spatial dimensions of classical holograms, each point in the sample plane can be used to store spectral informations such as the shape of a femtosecond pulse. On each point of the sample, spectral interferences between a reference pulse and an object pulse (for example chirped) are recorded via spectral hole-burning in the absorption band of the dye molecule. As early as 1983, photon echo and time-reversal experiments using persistent spectral hole-burning were performed in porphyrazine styrol solutions at 630 nm [1]. Then several developments, like the reconstruction of the polarization state of object pulses [2], time and space holography [3,4], image holograms using a single pair of femtosecond pulses [5] were demonstrated in different photosensitive media.