Abstract
The temporal evolution of the dipole response of a system excited by an electromagnetic field usually is not accessible with traditional spectroscopy. Only the time-integrated dipole response (TIDR) is detected. Here, we investigate the case of the off-resonant excitation of a quantum-mechanical two-level system (TLS) where the TIDR is expected to be zero. Our time-frequency representation of the dipole response reveals that even in this case positive and negative contributions are present during its temporal evolution. The zero TIDR is a result of the exact balance of positive and negative contributions, which cancel out. We present a way to create and control optical gain and loss by interrupting the evolution of the dipole in time. In this way, we make these nonzero contributions accessible for spectroscopy.
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