Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 63, Number 1, July 2003
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Page(s) | 35 - 41 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, optics, acoustics, heat transfer, classical mechanics, and fluid dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00474-0 | |
Published online | 01 June 2003 |
Collapse and revival of a Dicke-type coherent narrowing in a sub-micron thick vapor cell transmission spectroscopy
1
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, UMR 7538 du CNRS Université Paris 13 - 99 Av J.-B. Clément, 93430 Villetaneuse, France
2
Institute for Physical Research, Armenian Academy of Sciences Ashtarak 2, 378410 Armenia
Corresponding author: bloch@lpl.univ-paris13.fr
Received:
10
March
2003
Accepted:
2
May
2003
In a thin cell of dilute vapour, the absorption spectrum exhibits
sub-Doppler features due to the relative enhancement of the slow
atom contribution, with respect to the transient nature of the
interaction with moving atoms. For a two-level system in the
linear regime, the narrowest response is predicted to be found
for a thickness, as an effect of the coherent
character of the dipole response as early described by Romer and
Dicke (Phys. Rev., 99 (1955) 532) in the microwave
regime. We report here on the direct observation of this effect
in the optical regime in an ultra-thin vapour cell. This effect
is shown to vanish for a thickness equal to λ, and a
revival is observed at
, as expected from the
predicted λ-periodicity. The experiment is performed on
the D1 resonance line of
vapour
(
), in a specially designed cell, whose
thickness varies locally.
PACS: 42.50.Gy – Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption / 32.70.Jz – Line shapes, widths, and shifts / 42.50.Md – Optical transient phenomena: quantum beats, photon echo, free-induction decay, dephasings and revivals, optical nutation, and self-induced transparency
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