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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Electromagnetically induced two-photon transparency in a four-level system of rubidium atom

Dong Wang, Jin-Yue Gao, Jihua Xu, Giuseppe Carlo La Rocca, F. Bassani

Published Apr 9, 2001• 0 citations
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Abstract

An experimental study of electromagnetically induced two- photon transparency (EITT) in rubidium atomic vapor at room temperature is presented. A four level system is considered, involving the two-photon absorption process 5S1/2 to 8S1/2 via an intermediate state 5P3/2, and the single- photon control process 5P3/2 to 5D5/2. A controlling pump laser beam is employed to coherently couple the 5P3/2 and 5D5/2 states, thus producing two dressed intermediate states, which give rise to destructive interference in the two-photon transition. Fluorescence from 8S1/2 to 5P1/2 is used to monitor the 5S1/2(Fequals3) to 8S1/2(Fequals3) two-photon absorption. An induced two-photon transparency of about 80% has been obtained at resonance; the experimental results are in good agreement with the general theory of Agarwal, when the appropriate spectroscopic parameters are employed.

DOI
10.1117/12.425120

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We investigate ladder-type electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in rubidium gas. The theoretical absorption profile of a weak probe laser beam at 780.2nm (5S1∕2→5P3∕2) is modeled in the presence of a strong coupling laser beam at 776.0nm (5P3∕2→5D5∕2) and the absorption transparency window is characterized. We use two grating-feedback diode lasers and observe EIT experimentally in rubidium and compare the results to the theory. This experiment brings quantum optics into the advanced undergraduate laboratory and utilizes equipment and expertise commonly available in laboratories equipped to perform diode-laser-based absorption spectroscopy of rubidium.
An electromagnetically induced transparency is observed at one arm of a three-level \ensuremath{\Lambda}-type system in a rubidium D1 line (794.8 nm) with an 85% reduction in absorption, when a pumping field is present at the other arm. This reduction in absorption for the weak probe field is due to the atomic coherence produced by the strong pumping field. This experiment is done in a Rb vapor cell at room temperature with cw diode lasers for both pumping and probe beams in a Doppler-free configuration. A simple theoretical treatment including Doppler broadening is in good qualitative agreement with the experimental measurement.
We applied a pumping field to couple the middle level of two- photon absorption with the fourth level. Two-photon absorption minimum was observed. This is the first observation and experimental analysis of such phenomenon after it was predicted four years ago. In sodium vapor, two-photon absorption strength of 3S1/2(Fequals2)-3P3/2-4D3/2 was measured by detecting the fluorescence at 568.3 nm (4D3/2-3P1/2). Levels 3P3/2 and 5S1/2 were connected by pumping field. Experimental data of two-photon absorption strength vs detuning from middle level (TADM) shows that the two-photon absorption was reduced by 60% at line center in the presence of resonant pumping field. In rubidium vapor, two-photon absorption of 5S1/2(Fequals3)-5P3/2-8S1/2(Fequals3) was measured by detecting the fluorescence at 607 nm (8S1/2-5P1/2). Levels 5P3/2 and 5D5/2(Fequals5) were connected by pumping field. The TADM profiles under different experimental condition indicate that the maximum reduction of two-photon absorption can be 80%. And the reduction effect reduced with lower strength, higher detuning frequency and wider line width of pumping field. At the same time, the position of minimum absorption depends on the detuning of pumping field. All the experimental profiles were fitted well with theoretical calculation results.
This thesis investigates the parameters of achieving electromagnetically induced transparency, or EIT. The technique of EIT manipulates the properties of atoms to partially cancel the usual absorption of laser light. In this experiment, the effect was observed using the D1 line of rubidium vapor and a Λ -configuration between the degenerate magnetic sublevels of the 5S1/2(F=1) and 5P1/2(F=1) hyperfine states. Among the parameters investigated were the linear and circular polarization of the light used to drive the transitions, the size of the laser beam used, the effects of the temperature of the rubidium interaction cell on EIT, the density of the rubidium atoms in the interaction cell, and the effects of changing the power of the fields used to drive the transitions. Careful measurements of these parameters were made.