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Photon echo generated in ytterbium vapor by linear and circular polarizations of resonant radiation pulses

✍ Scribed by E.B. Khvorostov; V.G. Gol'dort; V.N. Ishchenko; S.A. Kochubei; N.N. Rubtsova; V.D. Salakhutdinov; I.V. Yevseyev


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
113 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
1612-2011

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✦ Synopsis


Polarization properties of photon echo generated at the inter-combination transition (6s 2 ) 1 S0 ↔ (6s6p) 3 P1 of 174 Yb (transition of type 0 ↔ 1) are for the first time investigated experimentally for a complete set of polarizations of two exciting pulses of resonant radiation (linear-linear, circularlinear, linear-circular, and circular-circular) in a pure ytterbium vapor. In all cases the photon echo polarization coincides with polarization of the second exciting pulse. Photon echo in a pure gas does not appear neither for exciting pulses of mutually orthogonal linear polarizations, nor for the pulses of opposite circular polarizations. Experimental results are in agreement with theoretical predictions.