Dark-line in optically-thick vapors: inversion phenomena and line width narrowing |
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| Authors: | A Godone F Levi S Micalizio J Vanier |
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| Institution: | (1) Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale “Galileo Ferraris”, Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135 Torino, Italy, IT;(2) Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duce degli Abruzzi 24, 10124 Torino, Italy, IT;(3) Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QUE Canada, CA |
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| Abstract: | An analysis of the phenomenon of coherent population trapping as observed by means of the dark state in the case of optically
thick vapors in alkali metal atoms is presented. Very different behaviors are predicted for the observation of the dark state
in the fluorescence and transmission spectra of the same atomic sample when the optical length is not negligible. Among other
effects, the dark line observed in the fluorescence signal may look inverted appearing as a bright line, while in the transmission
signal a narrowing of the line width resonance line is observed for an increase of the atomic density. In the pure three-level
scheme a subnatural width is predicted. These effects, related to the electromagnetically induced transparency phenomenon,
are readily observed in experiments, which are found to be in excellent agreement with the theory developed.
Received 28 March 2001 and Received in final form 3 October 2001 |
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| Keywords: | PACS 32 80 Wr Other multiphoton processes – 06 30 Ft Time and frequency – 31 15 Ne Self-consistent-field methods – 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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