title: Modeling of femtosecond pulse interaction with inhomogeneously broadened media using an iterative predictor corrector FDTD method.
abstract: We present a one-dimensional iterative predictor-corrector finite-difference time-domain method for modeling of broadband optical pulse propagation and interaction with inhomogeneously broadened materials. The simulator is used to demonstrate two- and three-pulse photon echoes resulting from bandwidth limited pulse and matched chirp interactions with a material modeled with hundreds of equally spaced, discrete spectral lines of detuning. The results are illustrated as Bloch-sphere evolution movies.
authors.forename: Friso
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schlottau
authors.forename: Melinda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piket-May
authors.forename: Kelvin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wagner