Essential features of optical processes in neon-buffered submicron-thin Rb vapor cell

doi:10.1364/OE.18.014577

Essential features of optical processes in neon-buffered submicron-thin Rb vapor cell

Grant Hakhumyan, Armen Sargsyan, Claude Leroy, Yevgenya Pashayan-Leroy, Aram Papoyan, and David Sarkisyan »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 14, pp. 14577-14585 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.014577

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A new submicron thin cell (STC) filled with Rb and neon gas is developed and comparison of resonant absorption with STC containing pure Rb is provided. The effect of collapse and revival of Dicke-type narrowing is still observable for the thickness L = λ/2 and L = λ, where λ is a resonant laser wavelength 794 nm (D₁ line). For an ordinary Rb cm-size cell with addition of buffer gas, the velocity selective optical pumping/saturation (VSOP) resonances in saturated absorption spectra are fully suppressed if neon pressure > 0.5 Torr. A spectacular difference is that for L = λ, VSOP resonances are still observable even when neon pressure is ≥ 6 Torr. Narrow fluorescence spectra at L = λ/2 allow one to realize online buffer gas pressure monitoring. A good agreement with theoretical model is observed.

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(020.1670) Atomic and molecular physics : Coherent optical effects
(300.6210) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, atomic

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Atomic and Molecular Physics

History
Original Manuscript: April 9, 2010
Revised Manuscript: May 5, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: May 7, 2010
Published: June 23, 2010

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Grant Hakhumyan, Armen Sargsyan, Claude Leroy, Yevgenya Pashayan-Leroy, Aram Papoyan, and David Sarkisyan, "Essential features of optical processes in neon-buffered submicron-thin Rb vapor cell," Opt. Express 18, 14577-14585 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-14-14577

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Europhys. Lett.

G. Dutier, A. Yarovitski, S. Saltiel, A. Papoyan, D. Sarkisyan, D. Bloch, and M. Ducloy, “Collapse and revival of a Dicke-type coherent narrowing in a sub-micron thick vapor cell transmission spectroscopy,” Europhys. Lett. 63, 35–41 (2003). [CrossRef]

J. Chem. Phys.

M. Motzkus, G. Pichler, K. L. Kompa, and P. Hering, “Comparison of Na(4p)+H2 and Na(3p)+H2 reactive systems studied by resonance CARS and DFWM methods,” J. Chem. Phys. 106, 9507 (1997). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

J. Opt. Technol.

G. Nikogosyan, D. Sarkisyan, and Yu. Malakyan, “Absorption of resonance radiation and fluorescence of an atomic gas with thickness of the order of a wavelength,” J. Opt. Technol. 71, 602–607 (2004). [CrossRef]

J. Phys. At. Mol. Opt. Phys.

T. Varzhapetyan, A. Nersisyan, V. Babushkin, D. Sarkisyan, S. Vdović, and G. Pichler, “Study of atomic transition self-broadening and shift with the help of a nano-cell,” J. Phys. At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 41, 185004 (2008). [CrossRef]
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Opt. Commun.

D. Sarkisyan, D. Bloch, A. Papoyan, and M. Ducloy, “A Sub-Doppler Spectroscopy by Sub-Micron Thin Cs-Vapor Layer,” Opt. Commun. 200, 201–208 (2001). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. A

D. Sarkisyan, T. Varzhapetyan, A. Sarkisyan, Yu. Malakyan, A. Papoyan, A. Lezama, D. Bloch, and M. Ducloy, “Spectroscopy in an Extremely Thin Vapour Cell: Comparing the Cell Length Dependence in Fluorescence and in Absorption Techniques,” Phys. Rev. A 69, 065802 (2004). [CrossRef]
C. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, L. Petrov, S. M. Saltiel, D. Sarkisyan, T. Varzhapetyan, D. Bloch, and M. Ducloy, “Saturation effects in the sub-Doppler spectroscopy of cesium vapor confined in an extremely thin cell,” Phys. Rev. A 76, 013837 (2007). [CrossRef]
G. S. Agarwal, “Quantum statistical theory of optical-resonance phenomena in fluctuating laser fields,” Phys. Rev. A 18, 1490–1506 (1978). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

J. H. Eberly, “Atomic Relaxation in the Presence of Intense Partially Coherent Radiation Fields,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 1387–1390 (1976). [CrossRef]
G. S. Agarwal, “Exact Solution for the Influence of Laser Temporal Fluctuations on Resonance Fluorescence,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 1383–1386 (1976). [CrossRef]
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Prog. Nucl. Phys.

A. Badalyan, V. Chaltykyan, Y. Fujii, Yu. Malakyan, M. Ozawa, A. Papoyan, and S. Shmavonyan, “Studies of laser induced cesium and rubidium hydride formation in vapor cells and their application for isotope separation,” Prog. Nucl. Phys. 47, 389–396 (2005).

Other

D. Sarkisyan, and A. Papoyan, “Optical processes in micro- and nanometric thin cells containing atomic vapor,” in New Trends in Quant. Coher. and Nonl. Opt., R. Drampyan ed. (Nova Sc. Publ., 2009).
S. Stenholm, Foundations of Laser Spectroscopy (New York: Wiley, 1983).

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