Reflection and transmission of ultrashort light pulses through a thin resonant medium: Local-field effects

Discriminating cascading processes in nonlinear optics: A QED analysis based on their molecular and geometric origin

“…These effects include the scrambling of the time ordering of incoming short pulses where the free-induction decay produced by one molecule can be long-lived and interacts with another molecule, a local-field χ (1) effect [1,9,20,21]. Additional local-field effects include corrections to the transmission/reflection of a thin film [22] and the Rabi oscillations of a quantum dot [23]. Nonlinearities are also induced in ensembles of noninteracting harmonic oscillators which are otherwise linear [24].…”

Optical solitons in periodic media with resonant and off-resonant nonlinearities

“…NDD effects necessitate a correction to the field that couples to an atom in terms of the incident field and volume polarization (Bowden, Postan and Inguva [1991], Scalora and Bowden [1995]). This effect can give rise to bistable optical transmission of ultrashort light pulses through a thin layer consisting of two-level atoms (Basharov [1988], Benedict, Malyshev, Trifonov and Zaitsev [1991]): the local-field correction leads to an inversion-dependent resonance frequency, and generates a new mechanism of nonlinear transparency. When the excitation frequency is somewhat larger than the original resonant frequency, the transmission of the layer exhibits a transient bistable behavior on the time scale of superradiance (Basharov [1988], Benedict, Malyshev, Trifonov and Zaitsev [1991]).…”

“…This effect can give rise to bistable optical transmission of ultrashort light pulses through a thin layer consisting of two-level atoms (Basharov [1988], Benedict, Malyshev, Trifonov and Zaitsev [1991]): the local-field correction leads to an inversion-dependent resonance frequency, and generates a new mechanism of nonlinear transparency. When the excitation frequency is somewhat larger than the original resonant frequency, the transmission of the layer exhibits a transient bistable behavior on the time scale of superradiance (Basharov [1988], Benedict, Malyshev, Trifonov and Zaitsev [1991]). It was shown that if an ultrashort pulse is allowed to interact with a thin film of optically dense two-level systems, the medium response is characterized by a rapid switching effect (Crenshaw, Scalora and Bowden [1992], ).…”

Coherent responses of the resonance atom layer to short optical pulse excitation

“…A thin film physics is attributed by an account of dipole-dipole interaction 7,8 in microscopic field acting on resonance atoms. The remarkable result in this field was the prediction of optical bistability 1,[9][10][11][12][13] and the feasibility of the chaotic pulsation of the transmitted radiation 12 .…”

“…A film with a thickness of the order of a wavelength placed on an interface of two dielectric media represents a simple example of 2D system, which optical properties has been intensively studied [1][2][3][4][5][6] . A thin film physics is attributed by an account of dipole-dipole interaction 7,8 in microscopic field acting on resonance atoms.…”