Atomic Spectrum in Ramsey Separated Oscillating Fields with Three Interaction Regions

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Microlaser with Ramsey Separated Fields Cavity

In a novel microlaser configuration with Ramsey separated-field cavity, we investigate a two-level atomic beam interacting with a single-mode high-Q Ramsey cavity, which is composed by two separated resonators. By using the well-known Ramsey cavity, one can recover the characters of microlaser even with a high flux atomic beam.     

Collisional shifts in an optical-lattice atomic clock

The effects of elastic collisions in optical-lattice atomic clocks are analyzed. Calculations are presented using a separated oscillatory fields clock arrangement. The interactions of atoms in multiply occupied lattice sites cause a linear frequency shift, and also generate asymmetric Ramsey fringe patterns, both complicate the determination of the resonance frequency and reduce the fringe visibility due to interparticle entanglement. A method of reducing these collisional effects in an optical lattice clock containing bosonic atoms by introducing a phase difference of π between the Ramsey driving fields in adjacent sites is developed. This configuration suppresses site-to-site hopping due to the interference of two tunneling pathways, without degrading the fringe visibility. The probability of double occupancy is, thereby, reduced and collisional shifts are, thus, ameliorated.     

Ramsey resonance for a pulsed beam

An experiment on a Ramsey resonance for pulsed neutrons is discussed. The separated oscillatory fields for nuclear magnetic resonance were synchronized with a neutron pulse, and then the Ramsey resonance was observed as a function of the neutron velocity. The neutron spin was manipulated as a function of the neutron velocity. The phase of one of the oscillatory fields was modulated as a function of the neutron time of flight for a neutron velocity measurement.     

Atomic clocks based on coherent population trapping: a review

The paper gives an overview of the use of the coherent population trapping phenomenon (CPT) in alkali-metal atoms in the implementation of atomic frequency standards. Several avenues are examined. These include: the approach using a combination of the CPT phenomenon and the Ramsey separated interaction field technique on an atomic beam; the passive approach in a cell in which the microwave hyperfine resonance excited by the CPT phenomenon is detected directly on the transmitted radiation; the maser approach in which the same resonance is observed by means of stimulated emission in a microwave cavity-cell arrangement; and, finally, the proposed approach using pulses in a time sequence that implements the combined CPT–Ramsey separated interaction field technique in time rather than in space. A review of field and laboratory implementations using these approaches is made.     

Excited atomic and molecular states in strong electromagnetic fields

Large changes in atomic and molecular structure can occur when strong static or oscillating electromagnetic fields are present. Such fields also can ionize atoms. Strong oscillating fields induced multiphoton transitions between bound states as well as to the continuum. What is known about these phenomena is reviewed, with emphasis on theories and experiments concerned with the field-sensitive excited and highly-excited states.     

Comparative short-term stability for a Cs beam and an expanding cold atomic cloud of Cs used as atomic frequency standards

We have compared the stability of two distinct atomic frequency standards. One is based on an atomic cold cloud of ¹³³Cs atoms in free expansion, interrogated by a Rabi resonance. The other standard is based on a thermal Cs beam interrogated by the separated oscillatory field method (Ramsey’s method). The atomic expanding cloud standard shows better stability and technical advances based on its simplicity.     

Observation of Ramsey fringes in nonlinear Faraday rotation

The evolution of Δm = 2 ground state coherences was investigated in a thermal Rb atomic beam using spatially separated laser beams. The coherence was created by optical pumping with a linearly polarized light beam and was probed, after evolving in a homogeneous magnetic field via the rotation of the plane of polarization of a second light beam. The observed signal shows dispersively shaped Ramsey fringes with a fringe width of 6 kHz.     

Non-linear ramsey resonance in the optical region

The interaction of gas particles with three separated light fields has been considered. It has been shown that a resonance with the width equal to the reciprocal transit time appears in such a system. The resonance is due to coherence conservation and change of distribution of a number of particles by nonlinear interaction with the fields. Its properties are close to the Ramsey resonance in the microwave range. This new type of resonance may have a relative width of 10⁻¹¹ to 10⁻¹².     

Multiphoton atomic ionization in the field of a very short laser pulse

Closed analytic expressions are derived for the probability of multiphoton atomic and ionic ionization in a variable electric field ?(t), which are applicable for arbitrary Keldysh parameters γ. Dependencies of the ionization probability and photoelectron pulse spectrum on the shape of a very short laser pulse are analyzed. Examples of pulse fields of various forms, including a modulated light pulse with a Gaussian or Lorentz envelope, are considered in detail. The interference effect in the photoelectron energy spectrum during atomic ionization by a periodic field of a general form is examined. The range of applicability of the adiabatic approximation in the multiphoton ionization theory is discussed. The imaginary time method is used in the calculations, which allows the probability of particle tunneling through oscillating barriers to be effectively calculated.     

Theory of optical ramsey resonance in three separated fields produced by a corner reflector

In this paper we study the optical Ramsey resonance signal of two-level molecules in three separated fields consisting of one standing wave and two traveling waves of opposite directions with each other. Their separations and phase differences are given by a corner reflector. The transition probability of a molecule that traverses the three interaction regions is calculated by using an optical Bloch vector formalism. It is then integrated over distributions of molecular velocities and positions to evaluate the signal observed with a gas cell. The result is applied to compute the optical Ramsey resonance signal in the absorption line of CH₄ at 3.39 μm. Variations of the Ramsey resonance lineshape and the intensity with the gas pressure and the field intensity are obtained.     

Interaction of neutrons with layered magnetic media in oscillating magnetic field

New experimental possibilities of investigating layered magnetic structures in oscillating magnetic fields are discussed. Spin-flip and nonspin-flip neutron reflection and transmission probabilities show a frequency dependency near the magnetic neutron resonance condition. This allows to increase the precision of the static magnetic depth profile measurements of the magnetized matter. Moreover, this opens new possibilities of measuring the induction of the oscillating field inside the matter and determining the magnetic susceptibility of the oscillating magnetic field. Refraction of neutrons as they pass through a magnetic prism in the presence of an oscillating magnetic field is also investigated. A non-polarized neutron beam splits into eight spatially separated neutron beams, whose intensity and polarization depend on the strength and frequency of the oscillating field. Also, it is shown that the oscillating magnetic permeability of an angstrom-thick layer can be measured with a neutron wave resonator.     

Observation of optical Ramsey interference fringes in collinear ion beam-laser beam interaction by Doppler switching

We report the observation of optical Ramsey interference fringes in collinear ion beam-laser beam interaction. The analogue of separated fields is created by Doppler switching the ions in two successive zones of the common beam path. New conditions to study quantum interference effects are offered by this method.     

External cavity diode laser around 657 nm

Operating a laser diode in an external cavity, which provides frequency-selective feedback, is a very effective method to tune the laser frequency to a range far from its free running frequency. For the Ca atomic Ramsey spectroscopy experiment, we have constructed a 657-nm laser system based on the Littman-Metcalf configuration with a 660-nm commercial laser diode. Continuously 10-GHz tuning range was achieved with about 100-kHz spectral linewidth, measured with beat-note spectrum of two identical laser systems.     

Optical response of a diatomic system with allowance for the dipole-dipole interaction

The optical response of a diatomic system excited by monochromatic light is studied. On the basis of a semiclassical approach, the effects of rearrangement of the energy spectrum of the system due to the dipole-dipole interaction and the effects related to variations in the orientation of the atomic dipole moments under the action of microscopic fields are jointly taken into account. The strongest response of the system is shown to occur at dimensional resonance frequencies. The number of observed intensity peaks depends on the position of the observation point with respect to the interatomic axis. The frequencies of the dimensional resonances are compared with other characteristic frequencies of the atomic spectrum.     

拉曼喷泉原子钟

利用托曼光场代替喷泉原子钟的微波腔实现拉曼喷泉原子钟.将分离托曼光场技术与冷原子喷泉技术相结合.避免了存真空腔内放置微波腔,简化了真空系统.同时还保持了很高的准确度.采用半经典理论研究了冷原子喷泉与托曼光场的相互作用过程.得到了冉赛(Ramsey)条纹.比较了托曼喷泉原子钟与热铯束拉曼原子钟,前者有更小的体积和功耗,其精度可能达到或超过商用小铯钟.还比较了拉曼喷泉原子钟与微波喷泉原子钟的差别,分析了光子反冲的影响,提出利用同向传播和相向传播的两台拉曼原子钟测最精细结构常数.     

Electrodynamics of Balanced Charges

We introduce here a new “neoclassical” electromagnetic (EM) theory in which elementary charges are represented by wave functions and individual EM fields to account for their EM interactions. We call so defined charges balanced or “b-charges”. We construct the EM theory of b-charges (BEM) based on a relativistic field Lagrangian and show that: (i) the elementary EM fields satisfy the Maxwell equations; (ii) the Newton equations with the Lorentz forces hold approximately when b-charges are well separated and move with non-relativistic velocities. When the BEM theory is applied to atomic scales it yields a hydrogen atom model with a frequency spectrum matching the Schrodinger model with desired accuracy. An important feature of the theory is a mechanism of elementary EM energy absorption established for retarded potentials.     

Stark–Zeeman and Blokhintsev Spectra of Rydberg Atoms

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics - The problem of Rydberg atomic spectra in crossed electric F and magnetic B fields (combined Stark–Zeeman effects), as well as an oscillating...     

克尔介质中纠缠光与三能级原子作用的光子统计

采用求解薛定谔方程和数值计算方法,研究了克尔介质中双模纠缠相干光场与三能级原子相互作用系统的光子统计性质,分析了双模纠缠相干光场的纠缠程度、克尔介质与光场的耦合强度、双模光的平均光子数和原子基态概率幅对光子统计性质的影响。结果表明：双模纠缠相干光场的纠缠程度对光子统计性质没有明显的影响;克尔效应增强使光子统计性质的时闻演化曲线的振荡频率变大、振荡幅度变小;当保持场模1的平均光子数不变而场模2的平均光子数变小时,光子统计性质的时间演化曲线的振荡幅度变大。     

两分量Bose-Einstein凝聚体的非线性Ramsey干涉

以非线性Rosen-Zener隧穿理论为基础,用两分量Bose-Einstein凝聚体设计了非线性Ramsey干涉计.通过数值模拟实验在时间域上观察到了丰富的Ramsey干涉图样,凝聚体中原子间重要的非线性相互作用导致这些干涉图样明显不同于线性Ramsey干涉时的正弦型条纹.通过进一步对干涉图样作Fourier分析,发现干涉图样的基频能够精确反映系统的非线性和不对称性特征,从而为测量原子的相关性质提供了理论依据. 关键词： Bose-Einstein凝聚 非线性Ramsey干涉 Rosen-Zener隧穿