Zeeman coherence in saturated absorption

Govind Prasad Agrawal

V. A. Nikulin, Е. А. Титов

E. Köster, J. Mlynek, Wulfhard K. Lange

裕也 中尾, Hiroya Nakao

Jason L. Bowie, Jack Boyce, R. Y. Chiao

Using an external cavity-tuned diode laser in Doppler-free saturation spectroscopy, we are able to resolve the weak-field Zeeman splittings in the hyperfine levels of the rubidium D1 line. The number of lines observed in the Zeeman structure of rubidium and their measured energy-level splittings are as expected from theory. The measured amplitudes of the saturated-absorption signals, crossover resonances, and velocity-selective optical pumping signals are used in the analysis of various theories concerning saturated-absorption spectroscopy.

Joseph H. Eberly, L. Mandeļ, E. Wolf