Abstract

We theoretically demonstrate the possibility to tune the temporal waveform of unipolar pulses of femtosecond duration emitted from a multilevel resonant medium. This is achieved through the control of the medium response by a properly adjusted sequence of half-cycle unipolar or quasi-unipolar driving pulses and the spatial density profile of resonant centers along the medium layer. We show the production of unipolar optical pulses of varying profiles, like rectangular or triangular ones, from an extended layer of a multilevel medium.

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Coherent control of a multilevel resonant medium by subcycle pulses

Anton Pakhomov, Nikolay Rosanov, Mikhail Arkhipov, and Rostislav Arkhipov
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 41(1) 46-54 (2024)

Generation of unipolar half-cycle pulses via unusual reflection of a single-cycle pulse from an optically thin metallic or dielectric layer

M. V. Arkhipov, R. M. Arkhipov, A. V. Pakhomov, I. V. Babushkin, A. Demircan, U. Morgner, and N. N. Rosanov
Opt. Lett. 42(11) 2189-2192 (2017)

Excitation and control of level populations in rectangular quantum wells by unipolar half-cycle attosecond pulses

Rostislav Arkhipov, Pavel Belov, Anton Pakhomov, Mikhail Arkhipov, and Nikolay Rosanov
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 41(1) 285-295 (2024)

Unipolar subcycle pulse-driven nonresonant excitation of quantum systems

R. M. Arkhipov, A. V. Pakhomov, M. V. Arkhipov, I. Babushkin, A. Demircan, U. Morgner, and N. N. Rosanov
Opt. Lett. 44(5) 1202-1205 (2019)

Coherent propagation of a half-cycle unipolar attosecond pulse in a resonant two-level medium

Rostislav Arkhipov, Mikhail Arkhipov, Ihar Babushkin, Anton Pakhomov, and Nikolay Rosanov
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(6) 2004-2011 (2021)