We demonstrate Rydberg state excitation in thermal rubidium vapor through the 6p state using light at 420 nm and 1015 nm. The system is analyzed through fluorescence, electromagnetically induced transparency and microwave coupling.
We study the excitation of Rydberg states in warm rubidium vapor. Using an inverted wavelength excitation scheme, we observe the effect of microwave coupling between Rydberg states through electromagnetically induced transparency. We observe AC stark shifts of the Rydberg states from the microwave coupling, and demonstrate detuned excitation to a secondary Rydberg state. These results show flexibility in the excitation process and state selection necessary for a variety of wave-mixing processes using Rydberg states.
A system of three external cavity diode lasers is used to excite Rydberg states in rubidium. The 5S→5P→5D transitions are driven using lasers with λ = 780 and 776 nm respectively. From the 5D state, atoms fluoresce down to the 6P state. The final transition to Rydberg levels is from the 6P state with laser light near λ = 1016 nm. The nS and nD Rydberg states are accessible directly and with the application of a modest electric field nP states can also be excited. As a test of this system, Stark spectra are collected for nD and nP states.
In this work, we precisely measure the transition energies between the Rydberg state nD5/2 to the nearby Rydberg states $(\e{n}+2)\text{P}_{3/2}$, $(\e{n}-2)\text{F}_{7/2}$ for the range $41\leq \e{n}\leq46$. This was done by carrying out microwave spectroscopy via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) in a room temperature vapor reference cell of Rubidium, which is similar to the experimental approach followed by Li et al. [Results in Physics \textbf{29}, 104728 (2021)]. This range is interesting because there is a quasi Förster resonance between the atomic pair 43D5/2+43D5/2 and 45P3/2+41F7/2. We compared the obtained results with numerically calculated transition energies based on previously tabulated quantum defect numbers by various research groups using both hot and ultra-cold atomic samples. Our data are more consistent with measurements made within ultra-cold atomic systems [Phys. Rev. A \textbf{67}, 052502 (2003), Phys. Rev. A \textbf{74}, 054502 (2006)].
In this work, we precisely measure the transition energies between the Rydberg state n D 5 / 2 to the nearby Rydberg states ( n + 2 ) P 3 / 2 , ( n − 2 ) F 7 / 2 in 85 Rb for the range 41 ≤ n ≤ 46 . This was done by carrying out microwave spectroscopy via electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a room temperature vapor reference cell of rubidium, which is similar to the experimental approach followed by Li et al., (2021). This range is interesting because there is a quasi Förster resonance between the atomic pair 43 D 5 / 2 + 43 D 5 / 2 and 45 P 3 / 2 + 41 F 7 / 2 . We compared the obtained results with numerically calculated transition energies based on previously tabulated quantum defect numbers by various research groups using both hot and ultra-cold atomic samples. Our data are more consistent with measurements made within ultra-cold atomic systems (Li et al., 2003; Han et al., 2006). • Precision Metrology. • Quantum Atomic Sensor. • Quantum Information Processing. • Quantum Computation. • Quantum Technologies.
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency detection of high-lying Rydberg states in room-temperature rubidium vapor was investigated using a four state ladder-type excitation scheme with light provided by three External Cavity Diode Lasers (ECDLs) at 780 nm, 776 nm, and 1266 nm. This detection technique was studied by characterizing the lineshape parameters of the EIT transmission peak, specifically the height, width and area of the transparency window as functions of the dressing and coupling laser powers. With the goal of characterizing the linewidth of the transmission signal, a confocal etalon was built and implemented in the optical setup to perform frequency calibration of the EIT spectra. Our experimental results indicate that the EIT transmission peak exhibits a non-monotonic dependence on laser power as we observed that the signal initially increases in amplitude, reaches a maximum value and then decays gradually at higher powers. We also observed power broadening of the linewidth at low dressing powers with constant coupling power, and saturation of the broadening in the middle to high dressing power regime. The EIT linewidth was observed to be approximately constant with varying coupling power in the power regimes studied in this experiment.