The spectrum of resonantly scattered light at right angles to a sodium atomic beam is reported. The light source was a CW dye laser tuned to resonance with a hyperfine component of the D 2 line, and incident at right angles to the atomic beam. The spectrum, with the Stark effect sidebands, was recorded as a function of both the laser intensity and its detuning from resonance. The overall resolution is better than 20 MHz.

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This Letter presents for the first time the observation of the resonant optical Stark effect in a semiconductor. The excitonic system of

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O is well suited to the investigation of this effect because of its rather large binding energy and well-resolved resonances at low temperatures. The mixing between the

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and

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laser leads to drastic changes in the one-photon spectrum around the

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absorption line. Even details of the line shape are consistently described in terms of the frequency-dependent nonlinear susceptibility.