High-Contrast Dark Resonance on the D2 - Line of 87Rb in a Vapor Cell with Different Directions of the Pump - Probe Waves
Georgy A. Kazakov, I. E. Mazets, Rozhdestvensky, Y +3 more
We propose a novel method enabling to create a high-contrast dark resonance in the 87Rb vapor D2-line. The method is based on an optical pumping of atoms into the working states by a two-frequency, linearly-polarized laser radiation propagating perpendicularly to the probe field. This new scheme is compared to the traditional scheme involving the circularly-polarized probe beam only, and significant improvement of the dark resonance parameters is found. Qualitative considerations are confirmed by numerical calculations.
•Mar 31, 2005•13 citations