Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics

Coherent population trapping in a gas of excited atoms

Petr M. Anisimov, Ахмеджанов Ринат Абдулхаевич, I. V. Zelenskii, Roman L. Kolesov, Elena A. Kuznetsova

Published May 1, 2003• 1 citation

Abstract

Coherent population trapping in a gas discharge was studied for transitions between excited levels of neon atoms. Resonances corresponding to the arising of coherent population trapping in the Λ and V schemes for Zeeman sublevels of the lower and upper working states were observed in the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field. The effect of nonlinear polarization plane rotation under coherent population trapping conditions was studied. The possibility of using the results obtained in this work for diagnostics of local magnetic fields and other plasma parameters in gas discharges was considered.

DOI: 10.1134/1.1581934

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