Title: Efficient method for the calculation of time- and frequency-resolved four-wave mixing signals and its application to photon-echo spectroscopy
Abstract: An efficient method has been developed for the calculation of third-order time- and frequency-resolved optical signals. To obtain the general four-wave mixing signal, seven auxiliary density matrices have to be propagated in time. For the special cases of two-pulse photon-echo and transient-grating signals, two or three density matrices, respectively, are required. The method is limited to weak laser fields (it is thus valid within the third-order perturbation theory) but allows for any pulse durations and automatically accounts for pulse-overlap effects. To illustrate the method, we present the explicit derivation of the three-pulse photon-echo signal. Any other third-order optical signal can be calculated in the same manner. As an example, two- and three-pulse photon-echo and transient-grating signals for a weakly damped displaced harmonic oscillator have been calculated.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-10-22
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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