Coherent control of optical transient processes in a gas

The possibility of controlling the processes of the free-polarization decay and photon echo in a gas by means of resonant CW radiation has been shown. The photon echo and free-polarization decay are formed using the method of the Stark switching of levels in a low-intensity radiation field in the presence of an orthogonally polarized strong field. The experiments in the gas at the R(4, 3) transition in the vibrational band 0 ↔ 1 v₃ ¹³CH₃F in the presence of radiation from a CW CO₂ laser and the calculations by the evolution operator method show a strong effect of the high-intensity radiation field on the photon echo and free-polarization decay to its complete suppression.