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Optics and Spectroscopy, 2022 Volume 130, Issue 6, Pages 969–973 (Mi os1779)

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Extremely strong fields and ultrashort optical pulses

Coherent control and creation of population gratings for a pair of attosecond pulses in a resonant medium based on one-dimensional rectangular quantum wells

R. M. Arkhipovab, P. A. Belovc, M. V. Arkhipova, A. V. Pakhomova, N. N. Rosanovab

a Saint Petersburg State University, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
b Ioffe Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
c Spin optics laboratory, Saint-Petersburg State University, 198504 St. Petersburg, Russia

Abstract: Attosecond pulses can be used to create and control coherence in resonant media, since their duration is shorter than the population relaxation times $T_1$ and medium polarization $T_2$. Previously, the possibility of creating and ultrafast control of electromagnetically induced gratings (EMIG) of atomic populations in a resonant medium was shown using a sequence of extremely short light pulses, when the pulses coherently interact with the medium and do not simultaneously overlap in the medium. These studies were carried out in various approximations, when a finite number of energy levels of the medium is taken into account, or when the pulse amplitude is small. In this paper, based on a direct numerical solution of the time dependent Schrödinger equation without the indicated approximations, we study the possibility of ultrafast coherent control of populations and the creation of an EMIG by a pair of attosecond pulses in a multilevel resonant medium with a low density of particles. The medium is modeled using a one-dimensional rectangular potential well with infinitely high walls. The studies performed show the possibility of ultrafast coherent control of the properties of resonant media based on quantum wells using attosecond pulses.

Keywords: electromagnetically induced gratings, coherent interaction, extremely short pulses, unipolar pulses, attosecond pulses, medium coherence.

Received: 29.12.2021
Revised: 21.01.2022
Accepted: 21.01.2022

DOI: 10.21883/OS.2022.06.52641.3098-21



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