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Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

Polarisation-monitored collisional redistribution experiment in Hg(3P1-1S0)-Kr

D Segal, Keith R. Burnett

Published Jan 28, 1989• 10 citations
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Abstract

The authors have measured the polarisation of collisionally redistributed light as a function of detuning from line centre for the Hg 3 P 1 - 1 S 0 transition in the presence of Kr. These are the first such results for a J=0 to 1 system for which the interatomic potentials are well documented. They present a polarisation profile for the red wing between 5 and 40 cm -1 and polarisation measurements for two individual detunings in the blue wing. The data have been corrected for various mechanisms which affect the polarisation but which do not depend on the original scattering event. The application of some of these corrections has been discussed elsewhere for the CW case. Since they report the first pulsed collisional redistribution experiments involving depolarisation measurements they discuss the differences between the pulsed and CW cases in detail.

DOI
10.1088/0953-4075/22/2/013

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Theory shows that to explain the polarization of light collisionally redistributed from the far line wings of an atomic transition, one must consider correlated events in which absorption during a collision, and propagation to the final Zeeman-state superposition at the end of the collision is important. Polarizations of up to about 40% have been measured in the far line wings, substantially confirming this prediction, and showing that scattering experiments cannot just be characterized by simple absorption or emission profiles.