High-contrast dark resonances with linearly polarized light on the D 1 line of alkali atoms with large nuclear spin

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1098-1103

  Watabe, Ken Ichi ^a   Ikegami, Takeshi ^a   Takamizawa, Akifumi ^a   Yanagimachi, Shinya ^a   Ohshima, Shin Ichi ^a   Knappe, Svenja ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRAPPING;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING; DARK RESONANCE; DENSITY MATRIX; HIGH CONTRAST; LINEAR POLARIZED LIGHT; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; NUCLEAR SPINS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 61449229783     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001098     Document Type: Article

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