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Optics and Spectroscopy

The effect of electromagnetically induced transparency in a potassium nanocell

Armen D. Sargsyan, A. Amiryan, Claude Leroy, T. A. Vartanyan, David G. Sarkisyan

Published Jul 1, 2017• 12 citations
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Abstract

The effect of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) has been experimentally implemented for the first time for the (4S 1/2–4P 1/2–4S 1/2) Λ-system of potassium atom levels in a nanocell with a 770-nm-thick column of atomic vapor. It is shown that, at such a small thickness of the vapor column, the EIT resonance can be observed only when the coupling-laser frequency is in exact resonance with the frequency of the corresponding atomic transition. The EIT resonance disappears even if the coupling-laser frequency differs slightly (by ~50 MHz) from that of the corresponding atomic transition, which is due to the high thermal velocity of K atoms. The EIT resonance and related velocity selective optical pumping resonances caused by optical pumping (formed by the coupling) can be simultaneously recorded because of the small (~462 MHz) hyperfine splitting of the lower 4S 1/2 level.

DOI
10.1134/s0030400x17070232

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The effect of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) has been experimentally implemented for the first time for the (4S 1/2–4P 1/2–4S 1/2) Λ-system of potassium atom levels in a nanocell with a 770-nm-thick column of atomic vapor. It is shown that, at such a small thickness of the vapor column, the EIT resonance can be observed only when the coupling-laser frequency is in exact resonance with the frequency of the corresponding atomic transition. The EIT resonance disappears even if the coupling-laser frequency differs slightly (by ~50 MHz) from that of the corresponding atomic transition, which is due to the high thermal velocity of K atoms. The EIT resonance and related velocity selective optical pumping resonances caused by optical pumping (formed by the coupling) can be simultaneously recorded because of the small (~462 MHz) hyperfine splitting of the lower 4S 1/2 level.
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Abstract The process of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) was investigated using two different probe radiations in Cs atomic vapor: in the first case probe radiation– transmission through a nanocell (NC) with the formation of EITT; in the second–selective reflection (SR) of laser radiation from the boundary of the atom-dielectric vapor (dielectric is nanocell window) with the formation of EITSR. To form EIT resonances, we used two continuous narrow-band lasers with λ = 852 nm and a nanocell with an atomic vapor column thickness in the range of 150–1500 nm. A comparison of the formation of EIT resonance in the first and second cases was carried out. Probe radiation containing EITT and EITSR-resonances propagates in opposite directions. It is noted that in a few cases, the formation of EIT resonance is more effective using SR radiation. The splitting of the EITSR-resonance in the longitudinal magnetic field into seven equidistant components was recorded, which allows remote monitoring of the magnetic field.
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Abstract Interest in magnetically induced (MI) transitions of alkali metal atoms is caused by the fact that their intensities can exceed the intensities of ‘regular’ atomic transitions in a wide magnetic field range (200–4000 G). The goal of this work was to form and study, for the first time, electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) resonance in a strong magnetic field using probe radiation tuned to | F g = F , m F = 0 ⟩ → | F e = F , m F = 0 ⟩ MI transition, which is forbidden in zero magnetic fields. Two narrow-band linearly polarized cw diode lasers were used to form EIT resonance on a Λ-type system of a Cs atomic D 2 line in a strong transverse magnetic field (up to 1000 G). The resonance was formed in a Cs atomic vapor nanocell with an atomic vapor column thickness of 850 nm.