arXiv:quant-ph/0507090 · Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters
On the unique possibility of significantly increasing the contrast of dark resonances on the D1 line of 87Rb
A. V. Taichenachev, Valeriy I. Yudin, Vladimir L Velichansky, S. A. Zibrov
Abstract
We propose and study, theoretically and experimentally, a new scheme of excitation of a coherent population trapping resonance for the D1 line of alkali atoms with nuclear spin I = 3/2 by bichromatic linearly polarized light (lin‖lin field) under the conditions of spectral resolution of the excited state. The unique properties of this scheme result in a high contrast of dark resonance for the D1 line of 87 Rb.