title: Origin of the spectral coherence in dynamically broadened Rabi sidebands.
abstract: We demonstrate the coherent nature of dynamic Rabi-shifted sidebands arising when a picosecond probe laser interacts with a weakly ionized laser-generated microplasma. The coherence is manifested as spectral fringes observed in the sideband spectra. A model is presented that quantitatively predicts both the spectral phase and the spectral interference measured in the sidebands.
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Photonics Research, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Plewicki
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Compton
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Filin
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Romanov
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Levis