Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
DC electric field effect on the magnetic field induced frequency mixing in alkali atoms
Polina V. Mironova, Vitalii D Ovsiannikov, Viacheslav V. Tchernouchkine
Abstract
A static electric field may induce essential changes to the cross section for the magnetic-field-induced coherent frecuency mixing of two laser waves, modifying the cross-section dependence on the magnetic field and polarization vectors of incident waves, which depends on the ratio of M1/E2 contributions to n1 2P1/2 (3/2) - n2 2P3/2(1/2) radiation transition amplitude. Relations between the M1/E2 ratio and quantitative characteristics of polarization asymmetry in cross section are determined. Calculated numerical data are presented for coherent mixing of two laser waves on Cs, Rb and K atoms.