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Physical Review A

Elimination of Doppler broadening at coherently driven quantum transitions

A. K. Popov, Vladimir M. Shalaev

Published Feb 1, 1999• 9 citations
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Abstract

Possibilities of elimination of Doppler broadening by making use of atomic coherence in ladder- and folded-type configurations of quantum transitions are considered. A simple physical analysis in terms of modification of the frequency-correlation factor for cascade and multiphoton processes in strong driving fields is developed.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.59.r946

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