Analytical model of transit time broadening for two-photon excitation in a three-level ladder and its experimental validation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bruvelis, M ^a   Ulmanis, J ^a,b   Bezuglov, N N ^a,c   Miculis, K ^a   Andreeva, C ^a,d   Mahrov, B ^a   Tretyakov, D ^a,e   Ekers, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (Bulgaria)

^e INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM AXIS; COUNTERPROPAGATING LASER BEAMS; DENSITY MATRIX EQUATIONS; EXCITATION LINES; EXPERIMENT DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; GAUSSIAN LASER BEAM; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; LASER FIELDS; LINE BROADENING; SUPERSONIC BEAMS; THREE-LEVEL; TRANSIT TIME; TRANSIT TIME BROADENING; TWO-LEVEL MODELS; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS; TWO-PHOTON TRANSITIONS; VOIGT PROFILE;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LASER BEAMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MODELS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONS; SODIUM;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 84863687431     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.012501     Document Type: Article

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