Abstract

The problem of the interaction of an ultrashort optical pulse and a thin film of resonant atoms under the conditions of two-photon absorption, third-harmonic generation, and the inverse effect of the latter on the pump pulse via Raman scattering is studied. The fact that the field acting on an atom differs from the macroscopic field in the film is also taken into consideration. It is shown that the polarization of the film undergoes dynamic relaxation even in the absence of irreversible relaxation, suppressing Rabi oscillations and establishing stationary values of the populations of the resonant energy levels and of the polarization of the film at the pump and the third-harmonic frequencies.

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