Propagation of the phase-modulated femtosecond pulses through the optically-dense quasi-resonant medium

Abstract

It is known that ultrashort pulse coherent propagation through the resonant absorbing medium leads to the pulse splitting and pulse train generation. First of these pulses is the input pulse and the following pulses are resonant medium response. It is also known that such a propagation mode leads to the «spectrum condensation» effect, at which broad-band input femtosecond laser emission, as it leaves opically-dense medium, centralized in the vicinity of the resonance absorption lines. It’s interesting to clear up the dependence of a condensation effect on an input femtosecond pulse phase modulation value (chirp).