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Perhaps the oldest spectroscopic technique for studying time-dependent interactions in matter goes back to the turn of the century when MICHELSON [1] demonstrated that atomic collisions can broaden spectral lines. Some 55 years later, similar time-dependent interactions were pursued in more sophisticated and detailed ways by pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance—the difference being that the measurements were carried out more directly in the time domain using coherent radio frequency sources. The development of this field abounds with coherence effects such as the spin echo and the free induction decay (FID) effect introduced initially by HAHN [2], and thus has set an example of what might be done at optical frequencies using laser sources. Indeed, the optical analog of the spin echo was first reported [3] in 1964, and the field of coherent optical transients has progressed steadily since that time.
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Brewer, R.G., Kano, S.S. (1979). Optical Dephasing in Molecular Iodine. In: Kompa, K.L., Smith, S.D. (eds) Laser-Induced Processes in Molecules. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67254-5_14
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