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Physical Review Letters

Observation of Two-Photon Optical Free-Induction Decay in Atomic Sodium Vapor

P. F. Liao, John E. Bjorkholm, J. P. Gordon

Published Jul 4, 1977• 40 citations
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Abstract

We have used the Stark-switching technique to observe two-photon optical free-induction decay in the visible using sodium vapor. Transients were observed with use of both a resonant and a nonresonant intermediate state for the two-photon transition.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.39.15

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