Quantum Electronics
Effect of collisions on the shape of the coherent population trapping resonance detected by the Ramsey method
Г. В. Волошин, К. А. Баранцев, A.N. Litvinov
Abstract
Abstract We report on a theoretical model of the effect of coherent population trapping in alkali atoms in an optically thin gas cell with a buffer gas at a nonzero temperature in a pulsed laser field. The shape of the Ramsey resonance is analysed for two different temperature ranges, i. e. for a ‘cold’ atomic ensemble and for an ensemble of ‘hot’ atoms in a cell with a buffer gas. The influence of the hyperfine structure of the excited level on the shift of the central Ramsey resonance is investigated.