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Collision induced two-pulsed photon echo at the transition 0–1 in a weak longitudinal magnetic field

Н. Н. Рубцова, Гольдорт Вениамин Гершевич, В. Н. Ищенко, Хворостов Евгений Борисович, Sergei A. Kochubei, Решетов Владимир Александрович

Published Oct 29, 2015• 5 citations

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Abstract

It was shown experimentally in ytterbium vapour at the transition (6s 2 ) 1 S 0 (6s6p) 3 P 1 (type ), that the weak longitudinal magnetic field destroys the collision induced two-pulsed photon echo generated in a gas mixture with heavy atomic buffer; in agreement with theoretical prediction.

DOI: 10.1088/1054-660x/25/12/126001

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