Optical hole burning in ruby

Nuclear-quadrupole optical hole burning in the stoichiometric material EuP5O14.

Hole burning, which is attributed to optical pumping of nuclear-quadrupole levels, has been observed in the stoichiometric rare-earth compound, EuP5O14 . The long lifetime of these holes (-60 min) implies slow nuclear-spin flip-flop rates. The small magnetic moment of Eu3+ has prevented conventional magnetic-resonance measurements on Eu3+ compounds, but hole burning provides a sensitive method ...

Photochemical Hole-burning in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

The change in absorbance (hole spectrum) of the primary electron donor (P870) in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers has been studied at 1.5-2.1 K following narrow-band excitation at several wavelengths within the P870 absorption band. The hole width is very large, suggesting a homogeneous linewidth on the order of 200-300 cm-‘. Possible interpretations of this highly unusual result, incl...

Form factor in persistent hole burning in multiple scattering optical media.

This paper presents detailed experiments on persistent hole burning in photoreactive and multiple scattering media. The dependence of the hole shape and width on the sample thickness, transport mean free path, and absorption length was measured. The experimental results show good agreement with a previously reported theoretical calculation on the basis of a diffusion approximation [Phys. Rev. E...

Optical delay with spectral hole burning in Doppler broadened cesium vapor

Slow light with persistent hole burning

R. N. Shakhmuratov, A. Rebane, P. Mégret, and J. Odeurs Instituut voor Kernen Stralingsfysica, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium Optique Nonlinéaire Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine CP 231, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Kazan Physical Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 10/7 Sibirsky trakt, Kazan 420029 Russia Physics ...