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Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2682–2685 (1996)

Direct Observation of Coherent Medium Response under the Condition of Two-Photon Excitation of Krypton by Femtosecond UV-Laser Pulses

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O. Kittelmann1, J. Ringling1, A. Nazarkin2, G. Korn1, and I. V. Hertel1
1Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Rudower Chaussee 6, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
2P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 53, 117924 Moscow, Russia

Received 9 August 1995; published in the issue dated 8 April 1996

Coherent Rabi oscillations and subsequent phase relaxation of excitation were observed under the condition of two-photon resonant interaction of Kr atoms with intense femtosecond 193 nm laser pulses. The coherent dynamics of the atomic transition exposed to an intense field was resolved using the technique of fs-pulse four-wave mixing with probe pulses significantly shorter than the pump pulses.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2682
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2682
PACS:
42.50.Gy, 42.50.Md, 42.65.Ky