Chirped excitation of optically-dense inhomogeneously broadened media using Eu{sup}(3+):Y{sub}2SiO{sub}5

摘要

Novel pump-probe experiments provide practical, sensitive diagnostics of media inversion by linearly chirped optical pulses. Maxwell-Bloch simulations and Landau-Zener calculations support the experiments and provide a general prescription for inversion of holeburning media by chirps.