The XIII International Youth Scientific School "The Coherent Optics and Optical Spectroscopy"

Coherent transient processes in gases

N. N. Rubtsova

A. V. Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics of SB RAS, Novosibirsk

Abstract: The article describes the physics of coherent transient processes (photon echo, free polarization decay, and nutation) in gaseous media and demonstrates possibilities of this processes to obtain the data on irreversible relaxation times on the example of our own experiments.

Keywords: coherent transient processes, gases, photon echo, free polarization decay, nutation, irreversable relaxation.

UDC: 535.2

Received: 29.12.2009