Measurement of excited-state lifetime using two-pulse photon echoes in rubidium vapor

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 671-680

  Rotberg, E A ^a   Barrett, B ^a   Beattie, S ^a   Chudasama, S ^a   Weel, M ^a   Chan, I ^a   Kumarakrishnan, A ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; HETERODYNING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATORS; PHOTONS; RUBIDIUM;

ECHO INTENSITY; OPTICAL BLOCH EQUATIONS; PHOTON ECHO SIGNAL;

LASER EXCITATION;

EID: 34047095885     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.000671     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. D. L. Moehring, B. B. Blinov, D. W. Gidley, R. N. Kohn, M. J. Madsen, T. B. Sanderson, R. S. Vallery, and C. Monroe, "Precision lifetime measurement of a single trapped ion with ultrafast laser pulses," Phys. Rev. A 73, 023413 (2006).
2. M. S. Safronova, C. J. Williams, and C. W. Clark, "Relativistic many-body calculations of electric-dipole matrix elements, lifetimes and polarizabilities in rubidium," Phys. Rev. A 69, 022509 (2004).
3. S. A. Blundell, W. R. Johnson, and J. Sapirstein, "Relativistic all-order calculations of energies and matrix elements in cesium," Phys. Rev. A 43, 3407-3418 (1991).
4. V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, A. Y Krafmakher, and O. P. Sushkov, "Summation of the high orders of perturbation theory in the correlation correction to the hyperfine structure and to the amplitudes of E1-transitions in the cesium atom," Phys. Lett. A 142, 373-377 (1989).
5. 3/2 lifetime discrepancy," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2866-2869 (1996).
6. J. E. Simsarian, L. A. Orozco, G. D. Sprouse, and W. Z. Zhao, "Lifetime measurements of the 7p levels of atomic francium," Phys. Rev. A 57, 2448-2458 (1998).
7. W. I. McAlexander, E. R. I. Abraham, and R. G. Hulet, "Radiative lifetime of the 2P state of lithium," Phys. Rev. A 54, R5-R8 (1996).
8. U. Volz and H. Schmoranzer, "Precision lifetime measurements on alkali atoms and on helium by beam-gas-laser spectroscopy," Phys. Scr., T T65, 48-56 (1996).
9. 3/2 levels by single-photon counting," Phys. Rev. A 50, 2174-2181 (1994).
10. C. K. N. Patel and R. E. Slusher, "Photon echoes in gases," Phys. Rev. Lett. 20, 1087-1089 (1968).
11. A. Flusher, T. Mossberg, and S. R. Hartman, "Excited-state photon-echo relaxation in Na vapor," Opt. Commun. 24, 207-210 (1978).
12. R. A. Forber, L. Spinelli, J. E. Thomas, and M. S. Feld, "Observation of quantum diffractive velocity-changing collisions by use of two-level heavy optical radiators," Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 331-335 (1990).
13. 3+ measured by photon echoes," Phys. Rev. B 21, 40-47 (1980).
14. 3+," Opt. Commun. 39, 169-171 (1981).
15. P. C. Becker, H. L. Fragnito, C. H. Brito Cruz, R. L. Fork, J. E. Cunningham, J. E. Henry, and C. V. Shank, "Femtosecond photon echoes from band-to-band transitions in GaAs," Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 1647-1649 (1988).
16. E. L. Hahn, "Spin echoes," Phys. Rev. 80, 580-594 (1950).
17. I. D. Abella, N. A. Kurnit, and S. R. Hartmann, "Photon echoes," Phys. Rev. 141, 391-406 (1965).
18. L. Allen and J. H. Eberly, Optical Resonance and Two-Level Atoms (Wiley, 1975).
19. C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Dupont-Roc, and G. Grynberg, Photons and Atoms (Wiley-Interscience, 1997).
20. C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Dupont-Roc, and G. Grynberg, Atom-Photon Interactions (Wiley-Interscience, 1998).
21. S. L. McCall and E. L. Hahn, "Self-induced transparency," Phys. Rev. 183, 457-485 (1969).
22. A. E. Siegman, Lasers (University Science Books, 1986).
23. A. Kumarakrishnan, U. Shim, S. B. Cahn, and T. Sleator, "Ground-state grating echoes from Rb vapor at room temperature," Phys. Rev. A 58, 3868-3872 (1998).
24. A. Gallagher and E. L. Lewis, "Resonance broadening of Hanle-effect signals in rubidium," Phys. Rev. A 10, 231-241 (1974).
25. N. Allard and J. Kielkopf, "The effect of neutral nonresonant collisions on atomic spectral lines," Rev. Mod. Phys. 54, 1103-1182 (1982).