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Acta Physica Sinica

ASYMMETRIC BEHAVIOR OF THE POLARIZATION BEATS SIGNAL IN A FOUR-LEVEL SYSTEM

ZHANG YAN-PENG, TANG TIAN-TONG, Panming Fu, (1)西安交通大学光电子系，西安 710049; (2)中国科学院物理研究所，北京 100080

Published Jan 1, 1999• 6 citations
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Abstract

We have studied the asymmetric behavior of the polarization beats in a four-level system when the pump beams have either narrowband or broadband linewidth, we attribute this asymmetry to the shift of the zero time delay which is due to the dispersion of the optical components.
DOI
10.7498/aps.48.242

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