• DocumentCode
    1060082
  • Title

    Spectral hole burning in dye solutions

  • Author

    Mourou, Gerard

  • Author_Institution
    San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
  • Volume
    11
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1975
  • fDate
    1/1/1975 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    Using picopulses generated by a mode-locked ruby laser, we have measured the 3-8-Å bandwidth of a hole burned in the 0-0 transition of cryptocyanine in methanol and demonstrated the inhomogeneous chatacter of this transition. The population-rate equations are written for an inhomogeneous transition with two and four energy levels interacting with continuous or pulsed excitation. Using the numerical solutions of this model together with the experimental result we determine a transverse relaxation time T_{2} = 0.6-1 ps for cryptocyanine in methanol.
  • Keywords
    Absorption; Bandwidth; Cryptography; Equations; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Laser transitions; Methanol; Pulse measurements;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1975.1068521
  • Filename
    1068521