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In the regime of coherent interaction of short optical pulses with a resonant medium, which is implemented with a pulse duration shorter than the relaxation times in the medium, the formation of population gratings can occur without overlapping the pulses therein. In this case, there are new possibilities for controlling optical pulses, which are especially pronounced for extremely short pulses. It is shown that, with the proper choice of the parameters of a sequence of extremely short optical pulses, not only the formation of population gratings, but also their erasure are possible. It is demonstrated that this effect can be used for the creation of an ultrahigh-speed optical deflector.
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Original Russian Text © R.M. Arkhipov, M.V. Arkhipov, I. Babushkin, N.N. Rosanov, 2016, published in Optika i Spektroskopiya, 2016, Vol. 121, No. 5, pp. 810–816.
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Arkhipov, R.M., Arkhipov, M.V., Babushkin, I. et al. Formation and erasure of population difference gratings in the coherent interaction of a resonant medium with extremely short optical pulses. Opt. Spectrosc. 121, 758–764 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X16110047
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