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The early practitioners of nuclear magnetic resonance [1,2] probably never dreamed that their sophisticated coherence techniques would one day be adapted to the optical region. Coherent radiation sources were needed and in those days, the early 1950’s, lasers were not being discussed. We now know that the subject of coherent optical transients has developed steadily, beginning in 1964 with the initial photon echo measurement of Kurnit, Abella, and Hartmann [3]. Indeed, at the present time, the optical analogs of pulsed NMR transients have to some degree been realized.
Presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Coherence in Spectroscopy and Modern Physics, Villa le Pianore, Versilia, Italy, July 17–30, 1977.
Supported in part by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
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References to Lecture I
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I wish to thank A. E. Siegman for bringing this model to my attention and for interesting discussions which led to several of the arguments presented in this section.
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Brewer, R.G. (1978). Coherent Optical Transients. In: Arecchi, F.T., Bonifacio, R., Scully, M.O. (eds) Coherence in Spectroscopy and Modern Physics. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 37. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2871-1_3
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