Experimental demonstration of phase control of dispersion effects for an ultrashort pulse train propagating in a resonant medium

Autor: M. Jacquey, Sébastien Bonhommeau, M. A. Bouchene
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Optics letters. 28(14)
ISSN: 0146-9592
Popis: We present an experiment in which an ultrashort pulse train propagates resonantly through anoptically dense vapor of atomic rubidium. The sequence obtained from a Fabry-Perot interferometer comprises nearly 10 regularly time-delayed and mode-locked pulses. We show that a sequence with phase shift phi = 0[2pi] between two successive pulses propagates with important temporal distortion, whereas a sequence with phi = pi[2pi] experiences few propagation effects, thus leading for the first time to our knowledge to the possibility of phase control of dispersion effects for an ultrashort pulse train.
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