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When a multilevel system excited by a laser pulse absorbs a cascade of photons, a second pulse of same frequency, equal duration but dephased by π takes it back to its initial state. This property can be inferred by studying the laser field system interaction matrix, using the rotating wave approximation.
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Besnaïnou et al. (1982) studied this question.
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