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High-contrast dark resonances with linearly polarized light on the D1 line of alkali atoms with large nuclear spin

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Author(s)

Ken-ichi Watabe, Takeshi Ikegami, Akifumi Takamizawa, Shinya Yanagimachi, Shin-ichi Ohshima, Svenja A. Knappe

Abstract

High-contrast coherent population trapping signal was observed on the Cs-D1 line using a bichromatic linear polarized light (lin||lin) field. The maximum absorption contrast of about 10% was obtained was nearly two times higher than that measured with the standard configuration of bichromatic circularly polarized light (ς¿|ς field).
Citation
Applied Optics
Volume
48
Issue
6

Keywords

bichromatic linearly polarized light, cesium, coherent population trapping, contrast, D1 line

Citation

Watabe, K. , Ikegami, T. , Takamizawa, A. , Yanagimachi, S. , Ohshima, S. and Knappe, S. (2009), High-contrast dark resonances with linearly polarized light on the D<sub>1</sub> line of alkali atoms with large nuclear spin, Applied Optics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=50667 (Accessed July 27, 2024)

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Created February 19, 2009, Updated October 12, 2021