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Applied Optics

Quantitative detection of atomic absorption by intracavity dye-laser quenching

Mitsuo Maeda, F. Ishitsuka, M. Matsumoto, Y. Miyazoe

Published Feb 1, 1977• 20 citations
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Abstract

A new technique for quantitative detection of atomic absorption by intracavity dye-laser quenching is studied. For the sodium D(2) line, a sensitivity of 7 x 10(4) atoms/cm(3) x 1% quenching is obtained; and the sensitivity in single-pass detection is 4 x 10(8) atoms/cm(3) x 1% absorption for a 15-cm cell. Use of a cw dye laser improves the sensitivity and the stability. The dependence of the sensitivity on the bandwidth of laser action is measured, and a simple theoretical consideration is given for single-pass absorption.

DOI
10.1364/ao.16.000403

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A new technique for quantitative detection of atomic absorption by intracavity dye-laser quenching is studied. For the sodium D(2) line, a sensitivity of 7 x 10(4) atoms/cm(3) x 1% quenching is obtained; and the sensitivity in single-pass detection is 4 x 10(8) atoms/cm(3) x 1% absorption for a 15-cm cell. Use of a cw dye laser improves the sensitivity and the stability. The dependence of the sensitivity on the bandwidth of laser action is measured, and a simple theoretical consideration is given for single-pass absorption.
Using a sodium Raman laser that is pumped by a single-frequency cw dye laser, we have measured the narrow-band Raman gain that exists in the vicinity of the sodium D(1) line. Large gains (>10 cm(-1)) are measured at moderate pump intensities and sodium densities. The high gain allows us to detect directly a 1.772-GHz beat on the pump beam after it makes only a single pass through the sodium cell. By scanning the frequency of the sodium Raman laser while keeping the pump intensity and frequency constant, we are able to map out the Raman gain profile. The narrowness of the Raman gain is consistent with the narrow beat signal between the Raman-laser beam and the pump beam that was reported earlier [Opt. Lett. 16, 1853 (1991)].
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Doppler-free two-photon absorption experiments have been preliminarily carried out to investigate the highly excited D states of Rb atom using a cw tunable dye laser.The two-photon absorption signals with big signal to noise ratios have been obtained by means of a space-charge limited ionization detector equipped inside a Rb cell.The sharp slope of the first derivative curve of the absorption signal shows the entire possibility of frequency stabilization of a dye laser in terms of ultra-violet wavelength references via two-photon absorption technique.The obtained experimental results are compared with the results which have been performed so far by other researchers, and quantitative discussions are made.
The steady-state absorption of a beam of sodium atoms irradiated by a train of pulses from a mode-locked dye laser has been measured. The sodium atoms were prepared as two-level systems by optical pumping with a two-mode laser. Absorption spectra on the 589.0-nm D2 line were recorded over 20 GHz with a frequency-stabilized, tunable, mode-locked dye laser having a bandwidth of 3.7 GHz and a mode spacing of 82 MHz. The laser-pulse profile was determined from the spectral profile assuming transform-limited pulses and was incorporated in theoretical calculations of excitation spectra obtained by numerical integration of the optical Bloch equations. By comparison of measured absorption spectra and theoretical excitation spectra the validity of the weak-field solution as well as the predicted saturation behavior were fully verified by the experimental results. For the highest level of irradiation applied, the laser pulses were identified as π pulses.