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Physical Review A

Effects of field correlation on polarization beats

Yanpeng Zhang, Liqun Sun, Tiantong Tang, Panming Fu

Published Apr 18, 2000• 25 citations
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Abstract

We have employed a second-order coherence function theory to study the effect of laser coherence on polarization beats in four-level system (PBFS). It is found that the temporal behavior of the beat signal depends on the stochastic properties of the lasers and transverse relaxation rate of the transition. The cases that pump beams have either narrow band or broadband linewidth are considered and it has been found that for both cases a Doppler-free precision in the measurement of the energy-level splitting between two excited states which are dipolar forbidden from the ground state can be achieved. We have also studied the asymmetric behavior of the polarization beats, and attributed this asymmetry to the shift of the zero time delay which is due to the dispersion of the optical components.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.61.053819

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