Abstract

We present a time-resolved study of the diffracted pulse in degenerate four-wave mixing experiments with short-response-time materials. The first step is the validation of a theoretical model that takes into account the temporal characteristics of the energy level (relaxation time T₁ and dephasing time T₂) and of the incident pulse (duration and spectral phase) in a simple particular case. Two methods are used for characterizing the diffracted beam: the amplitude correlation with the reference pulse and the spectrum intensity measurements. We discuss the experimental results, which show good agreement with the theoretical model and evidence the strong influence of the incident pulse characteristics.

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