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

Influence of the pumping field polarization on the coherent effects at Zeeman sublevels of hyperfine states in Rb

G. Alzetta, S. Cartaleva, Yordanka V. Dancheva, C. Andreeva, Silvia Gozzini, Laura Botti, A. Rossi, Andrey Yanev, B. Todorov

Published Apr 9, 2001• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this communication we present experimental investigation of coherent effects at Zeeman sublevels of hyperfine levels of Rb in dependence on the polarization of the pumping laser field in order to obtain more complete information about the dark and bright CPT resonances. The coherent effects are examined in Hanle effect configuration, exciting Rb vapor cell with a single-frequency diode laser. By means of phase-sensitive detection (PSD) the amplitude and sign of the CPT resonances are registered in the vicinity of the Rb D1 and D2 lines. It is shown that the sign of the CPT resonances changes when the polarization of the exciting beam changes. Theoretical calculations are performed for the population losses of the given transition in order to clarify the observed experimental results.

DOI
10.1117/12.425121

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Subnatural-width resonances due to coherent effects in optical pumping at hyperfine (hf) transitions of Rb are investigated using a linearly or circularly polarized single-frequency diode laser beam. The sign and amplitude of the resonances in the fluorescence are measured by scanning the laser frequency over the hf transitions of the Rb D 1 and D 2 lines. The fluorescence perpendicular to the laser beam is detected as a function of magnetic field parallel to the beam propagation and scanned around zero value. In the case of linear polarization of the field, dark resonances are observed for hf transitions with F g → F e = F g -1 and F g → F e = F g , and bright resonances are observed for transitions with F g → F e = F g + 1. This is in agreement with the recently developed theories. For all (except F g = 2→ F e = 3, 85 Rb, D 1 line) hf transitions the sign of the resonances reverses when the polarization of the field changes to circular. The amplitudes of the resonances correspond to the probability of the hf transitions and to the calculated loss rate of the population to the ground hf level not excited by the laser field. The observed narrow resonances (FWHM: few tens of kHz) and their sensitivity to weak magnetic fields are interesting for high-resolution spectroscopy and for development of simple and precise magnetometers.
Summary form only given. We have performed experimental investigations of the coherent population trapping (CPT) phenomenon at a single hyperfine transition at the D/sub 1/ and D/sub 2/ lines of Rb in a cell, inserted inside a magnetic shield. For observation of CPT dark resonances at a single hyperfine transition the Zeeman degeneracy has to be removed. This was achieved by applying a homogeneous magnetic field H/sub 1/, parallel to the laser beam and scanned in both directions around zero value. Additional coil produced constant magnetic or RF electromagnetic field H/sub 2/ perpendicular to the beam propagation. The fluorescence signal was registered in order to investigate the influence of the additional electromagnetic field on the dark line parameters. It was observed that the width and the contrast of the dark line are very sensitive to the applied field H/sub 2./ Increasing the value/amplitude of H/sub 2/ causes increase of the width and decrease of the contrast of the CPT resonances.
We present the transformation in the Hanle configuration of the transmission that results from coherent population trapping (CPT) into the level-crossing absorption (LCA) that results from the single-photon optical pumping in the 87Rb^{87}\mathrm{Rb}87Rb D1{D}_{1}D1​ line of a Rb vapor cell with a Ne buffer gas when the polarization of the laser field is changed from linear to circular. The LCA spectrum, with a narrow spectral width of 2.42.42.4 mG (1.71.71.7 kHz), was observed in the ${F}_{g}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{F}_{e}\ensuremath{\leqslant}{F}_{g}$ transition with the circularly polarized laser. This may be because the LCA is both related to the transverse magnetic field and the atom-laser interaction time resulting from diffusive atomic motion in the cell with the buffer gas. The CPT and LCA spectra were calculated numerically using the full density matrix equations for the relevant magnetic sublevels of the hyperfine levels, considering the residual magnetic fields perpendicular to laser propagation and the collision effects resulting from the buffer gas. There was good qualitative agreement between theoretical and experimental results.
Interaction of a resonant laser beam with an atomic absorption medium creates population redistribution and interference between atomic levels. This anisotropy of the medium is experimentally observed as coherent population trapping (CPT) or electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). Due to the small sub-natural width of the CPT and EIT resonances, they find wide applications in metrology, quantum optics, atom cooling. A non-compensated stray magnetic field (SMF) can change the shape and sign of the resonance or destroy it completely. In this work, we present an experimental and theoretical investigation of the influence of a stray magnetic field on the CPT resonances obtained on Zeeman sublevels of the D 1 line of 87 Rb in a paraffin-coated vacuum cell. The role is clarified of the polarization moments with different rank in creating the integral registered fluorescent signal in the presence of a stray magnetic field. It is shown that a transverse magnetic field plays an important role in changing the shape of the signal.
In this communication we present our results related to examination of Coherent Population Trapping resonance profile on the D1 line of 87Rb when coupling two ground-state Zeeman sublevels belonging to different hyperfine ground-state levels to a common excited-state one. For this, two coherent laser fields with frequency difference of about 6.8 GHz are used. The resonance is observed as a narrow dip in the fluorescence in dependence on the modulation frequency (fm) of the laser light, centered at 2fm = &Dgr;vhf , where &Dgr;vhf is the frequency difference between the ground-state hyperfine levels of Rb. The resonance observation and its splitting in 7 components have been demonstrated under influence of nonshielded laboratory magnetic field (MF). It has been shown that different components are with different sensitivity to the MF gradients that is in agreement with the performed estimations.
We measure and simulate numerically the Hanle effect and non-zero field level crossing signals in 85 Rb and 87 Rb atoms in a magnetic field at room temperature. Diode laser radiation from 4 mW cm −2 to 3.3 W cm −2 tuned to the D 2 absorption line of each isotope excites atoms into all the excited-state hyperfine levels simultaneously inside the unresolved Doppler profile. Polarization fluorescence detection is used to observe dark and bright resonances, as well as non-zero field level crossing resonances, for several excitation lines. A broad spectral line excitation model is applied to analyse the measured signals. The non-linear Zeeman effect is included in the model for both ground and excited states. Although the applied magnetic field does not exceed 80 G, several hyperfine levels of the excited state show a substantial deviation from the linear Zeeman effect.