The absorption spectrum of Er3+ ions in YAG crystal in the range from 645 nm to 655 nm was measured with the resolution of 0.01 nm using the frequency-anticorrelated broadband photon pairs (biphotons) generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The spectrum of the sample was measured by counting the coincidences when the impurity crystal was placed in front of the signal photon detector, whilst the wavelength of the idler photons was resolved by a monochromator which was placed in front of another photon detector. The results are in agreement with those obtained by the usual intensity measurements with a classical light source and a monochromator. It was shown experimentally that the biphoton spectroscopy, unlike the usual single photon spectroscopy, allows one to obtain the spectroscopic information in the presence of an external noise such as background thermal radiation.
Abstract:The absorption spectrum of Cr 3+ ions in Al 2 O 3 crystal in the range from 691 nm to 697 nm was measured at the room temperature using the biphoton light generated by nondegenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion of the He-Cd laser radiation (325 nm) in the LiIO 3 crystal. The spectrum of the sample was measured by counting the coincidences when signal photons go through the impurity crystal, whilst the wavelength of the idler photons is resolved by a monochromator. A strongly nondegenerate regime of SPDC, when the difference in frequencies of correlated photons exceeds significantly their spectral width, was used in the biphoton spectroscopy for the first time. Such a regime allows one to obtain an absorption spectrum by measuring the wavelength in a completely different spectral range.Transmission, a.u. The absorption spectrum of Cr 3+ ions in Al2O3 crystal obtained by biphoton spectroscopy
Abstract:The results of an experimental investigation of the incoherent photon echo in ruby (with Cr 3+ concentration equal to 0.16 wt%) at T = 1.7 K are presented. Optical fiber with length 3 m and diameter 100 µm was used for delivery of the first exciting pulse to a sample. The dependence of the IPE intensity on the excitation wavelength within the width of R1 absorption line was studied. The IPE decay curve was obtained and the phase relaxation time was found to be equal to 98 ns. Oscillogram of incoherent backward photon echo (IPE) in concentrated ruby. The IPE signal is the first one at the right. The other pulses are the signals of diffraction corresponding to the first and the second exciting laser pulses
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