Publications [#234559] of Warren S. Warren

Journal Articles

1. Spano, FC; Warren, WS, Preparation of constant-bandwidth total inversion, independent of optical density, with phase-modulated laser pulses, Physical Review A, vol. 37 no. 3 (January, 1988), pp. 1013-1016, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 1050-2947 [doi]
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   Abstract:
   We show that pulses of electromagnetic radiation with a hyperbolic-secant envelope and a hyperbolic-tangent frequency sweep are capable of exciting an inversion line shape in a collection of two-level absorbers that is highly insensitive to optical density. This is not true of the hyperbolic-secant pulse (with no frequency modulation) which undergoes significant reshaping as it propagates. The analysis is based on numerical solutions of the coupled Maxwell-Bloch equations in both the plane-wave and paraxial approximations. We also show an additional insensitivity of the inversion profile to finite relaxation times (T2) that approach the pulse width. © 1988 The American Physical Society.