Kinetics of Hole Burning in Inhomogeneously Broadened Spectra: the Origin of Nonexponentiality and Problem of Burning Efficiency,

Abstract

High inhomogeneous broadening of impurity spectra in amorphous media reflects one type of dispersion, characteristic for disordered systems: dispersion of electronic transition frequency. In Principle, there can exist a pronounced dispersion of other parameters: homogeneous line width (gamma), Debye-Waller factor (alpha), hole burning efficiency(phi), etc. The problem of the burning efficiency dispersion (BED) was extensively discussed in the recent years ( and references therein). The nonexponentiality of the burning kinetics was treated in some publication as an evidence of such dispersion. But burning kinetics is always nonexponential in strongly inhomogeneously broadened systems, if a burning laser line width delta nu sub l is much less then gamma. That was found experimentally and treated theoretically in one of the first publications on a hole burning. All Other sources of the nonexponentiality are, in facts additional to this one. So, it's not easy to attain experimentally the BED parameters on such background. The procedure of a numerical fitting of the burning kinetic with BED, developed in, is correct, but it looks unreliable due to many fitting parameters.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 1992
Accession Number
ADP008282

Entities

People

  • B. M. Kharlamov
  • E. I. Al'shits
  • N. I. Ulitsky

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Dispersions
  • Efficiency
  • Frequency
  • Impurities
  • Kinetics
  • Spectra
  • Transitions

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Technology.
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Microelectronics