Spectral and temperature features of coherent picosecond nonlinear response of HTSCs at low excitation levels

It is shown that for the appropriate choice of the spectral measurement range (the choice of the coincidence point for the pumping component frequencies in the methods of biharmonic pumping and degenerate four-photon spectroscopy), the spectral and temperature features of the picosecond nonlinear response of high-temperature super-conductors (HTSCs) caused by interband transitions in the electronic spectrum with a metastable energy gap are stable with respect to the excitation level. The character of these features is determined by the resonance component of the total nonlinear response, which is formed at initial HTSC temperatures below the phase transition point (when the energy gap appears in the electronic spectrum).