Nutational stimulated photon echoes

Stimulated photon echoes (SPEs) with time duration comparable to the coherent lifetime and Rabi period have been investigated theoretically and experimentally with an angled beam configuration. The Rabi oscillation effects on both the transmitted field (optical nutation) and the SPE fields are expla...

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Published in:Optics letters 2002-07, Vol.27 (13), p.1156-1158
Main Authors: Tian, Mingzhen, Reibel, Randy, Barber, Zeb, Babbitt, W Randall
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Stimulated photon echoes (SPEs) with time duration comparable to the coherent lifetime and Rabi period have been investigated theoretically and experimentally with an angled beam configuration. The Rabi oscillation effects on both the transmitted field (optical nutation) and the SPE fields are explained by analytic solutions of Maxwell-Bloch equations. The theory also predicts that an echo can exist in the noncausal direction, and this was confirmed by experiments with Tm:YAG crystal.
ISSN:0146-9592
1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/OL.27.001156