Abstract
Novel pump-probe experiments provide practical, sensitive diagnostics of media inversion by linearly chirped optical pulses. Maxwell-Bloch simulations and Landau-Zener calculations support the experiments and provide a general prescription for inversion of hole-burning media by chirps.
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