Phenomenological description of dynamic and static coherent optical effects using triple products

Abstract

A simple and straightforward application of the formalism of electronic holography to various classes of coherent optical effects is shown to confirm recently observed phenomena. Specifically, the formalism in the time domain is applied to illustrate dynamic and static pulse echoes as well as time-inverted and nontimeinverted recall of general signals, including a sawtooth and Gaussian pulse. The case of multipulse echoes, in which the echoes appear in odd order, is also explored.