Measurement of steep dispersion associated with magnetically assisted gain in Zeeman degenerate two-level system of cold atoms
J. C. de Aquino Carvalho, Raoni S. N. Moreira, J. W. R. Tabosa
Abstract We report on the measurements of magnetically assisted dispersion and gain in a Zeeman degenerate two-level system associated with the closed D 2 hyperfine transition F g = 3 → F e = 2 cold cesium atoms. We use a Mach–Zehnder interferometer to measure the dispersive properties of this system in the presence of a magnetic field, transversal to the quantization direction, when the atomic system is excited by a coupling and probe beams with orthogonal polarizations. We have measured the spectrum of the refraction index for different magnitudes of the external magnetic field and different coupling beam intensities. A previously published theoretical model, using a simpler atomic transition F g = 1 → F e = 0 , accounts reasonably for the experimentally observed gain and dispersive lineshapes.
Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics•Feb 21, 2024•0 citations