Tai Hyun Yoon

We report the observation of laser-induced birefringence (LIB) in a wavelength-mismatched cascade system ($J=0\ensuremath{\leftrightarrow}J=1\ensuremath{\leftrightarrow}J=0$ transitions) of inhomogeneously broadened ytterbium atoms with strong pump and probe fields. We investigate the transmission spectrum of two circular polarization (${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{p}^{+}$ and ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{p}^{\ensuremath{-}}$) components of strong probe field at fixed frequency, depending on the detuning o

To test the principle of complementarity and wave-particle duality quantitatively, we need a quantum composite system that can be controlled by experimental parameters. Here, we demonstrate that a double-path interferometer consisting of two parametric downconversion crystals seeded by coherent idler fields, where the generated coherent signal photons are used for quantum interference and the conjugate idler fields are used for which-path detectors with controllable fidelity, is useful for eluci

A two-photon transition in cold Rb atoms will be probed with a phase-coherent wide bandwidth femtosecond laser comb. Frequency domain analysis yields a high-resolution picture where phase coherence among various transition pathways through different intermediate states produces interference effects on the resonantly enhanced transition probability. This result is supported by the time domain Ramsey interference effect. The two-photon transition spectrum is analyzed in terms of the pulse repetiti

We experimentally demonstrate a dual-frequency comb-based transient absorption (DFC-TA) technique, which has a 12 fs time resolution and an ultrafast scan rate. Here, the fast scan rate is achieved by employing asynchronous optical sampling (ASOPS), which utilizes two independent mode-locked lasers with a slightly detuned repetition rates. The ASOPS approach is advantageous because photodegradation damage of optical sample during TA measurements can be minimized by a gated sampling. We show that

We propose one- and two-wavelength methods of absolute measurement of diffraction-grating spacings based on the Littman configuration for autocollimation. The one-wavelength method has been applied to measure the spacing of a grating with a nominal value of 2160grooves/mm . The grating spacing was measured to be 463.16 nm, with an experimental standard deviation of 0.24 nm. It has been demonstrated that the both methods can provide direct traceability in the submicrometer region in terms of wave

A numerical method is introduced that solves the optical Bloch equations describing a two-level atom interacting with a strong polychromatic pump field with an equidistant spectrum and an arbitrarily intense monochromatic probe field. The method involves a transformation of the optical Bloch equations into a system of equations with time-independent coefficients at steady state via double harmonic expansion of the density-matrix elements, which is then solved by the method of matrix inversion. T

We demonstrate that a dual frequency comb-transient absorption (DFC-TA) technique can be combined with a time-domain interferometric detection to measure both the transient absorption and refraction spectra of molecules in solution. To do this, the pump-probe signal field of DFC-TA is allowed to interfere with a time-delayed local oscillator field in a time domain. We show that this DFC interferometric pump-probe spectroscopy (DFC-IPS) technique has a unique ability to extract the phase and ampl

Analytic solutions of the optical Bloch equations for a two-level atom interacting with a strong polychromatic field whose frequencies are symmetrically positioned with respect to the atomic frequency are used to obtain the polarization spectrum of the atom. The spectrum is found to consist of a series of discrete peaks or dips superimposed on the continuous part of the spectrum. Physical interpretation of resonances exhibited in the continuous part of the spectrum is given using a semiclassical

A complete understanding of a photochemical reaction dynamics begins with real-time measurements of both electronic and vibrational structures of photoexcited molecules. Time-resolved impulsive stimulated Raman spectroscopy (TR-ISRS) with femtosecond actinic pump, Raman pump, and Raman probe pulses is one of the incisive techniques enabling one to investigate the structural changes of photoexcited molecules. Herein, we demonstrate that such femtosecond TR-ISRS is feasible with synchronized tripl

Tellurium (Te) microcrystal with a bandgap of approximately 0.37 eV is a potentially useful semiconducting material exhibiting ultrafast electronic relaxation processes. To measure the intervalley and intravalley relaxation rates, we carried out two-color near-IR (NIR) pump and mid-IR (MIR) probe studies of rod-type Te microcrystals, employing a repetition-frequency-stabilized NIR (800 nm) laser and an MIR (3300 nm) frequency comb. Using interferometrically detected two-color asynchronous sampli

Mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy is an incisive tool for studying structures and dynamics of complicated molecules in condensed phases. Developing a compact and broadband mid-IR spectrometer has thus been a long-standing challenge. Here, we show that a highly coherent and broadband mid-IR frequency comb can be generated by using an intrapulse difference-frequency-generation with a train of pulses from a few-cycle pulse Ti:sapphire oscillator. By tightly focusing the oscillator output beam into

The authors demonstrate an optical frequency synthesizer based on a femtosecond (fs) mode-locked Ti:sapphire (Ti:s) laser by simultaneously stabilizing the carrier-offset frequency f/sub ceo/ and repetition rate f/sub rep/, referenced to the Cs atomic frequency standard. By using two wide-band digital phase-detectors they realize a phase-coherent link between f/sub rep/ and f/sub ceo/ with the relation f/sub ceo/=f/sub AOM/-5/6f/sub rep//spl equiv/0, where f/sub AOM/=5/6f/sub rep/ is the phase-l