TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental study of photon-echo size in optically thick media
AU - Wang, Tsai-Pei
AU - Greiner, C.
AU - Bochinski, J. R.
AU - Mossberg, T. W.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - We have studied the effect of generative-pulse amplitude, spatial profile, and temporal character as well as medium optical thickness on the power of photon and stimulated echoes. Working in atomic Yb vapor, photon echoes are observed that, absent material relaxation, are more powerful than the first generative pulse, thereby exceeding typically expected photon-echo powers by approximately two orders of magnitude. Factors crucial to the generation of powerful echoes identified through Maxwell-Bloch simulation are experimentally confirmed.
AB - We have studied the effect of generative-pulse amplitude, spatial profile, and temporal character as well as medium optical thickness on the power of photon and stimulated echoes. Working in atomic Yb vapor, photon echoes are observed that, absent material relaxation, are more powerful than the first generative pulse, thereby exceeding typically expected photon-echo powers by approximately two orders of magnitude. Factors crucial to the generation of powerful echoes identified through Maxwell-Bloch simulation are experimentally confirmed.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.R757
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.R757
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000249754
SN - 1050-2947
VL - 60
SP - R757-R760
JO - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
JF - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
IS - 2
ER -