ATOM-WALL COLLISIONS INFLUENCE ON DARKLINE ATOMIC RESONANCES IN SUBMICRON THIN VAPOUR CELLS.

Recently it was demonstrated that miniaturization of alkali cells, i.e. the use of an extremely thin cell (ETC) for the applications using the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effect, despite to intuitive expectation, does not cause a strong broadening of the dark-line (DL) linewidth. Here we present the conditions when a strong broadening of DL linewidth (more than by 10 times) can be easily observed due to atom-wall collisions influence and this could be a convenient and robust tool for atomwall (i.e. ETC's window material/temperature) collisions study. We present experimental and theoretical results on EIT realized in a Λ- system of 85Rb, D2 line, 5S-5P-5S for a Rb vapour c…

Study of atomic Vapour Layers of Nanometric Thickness and Atom-Surface Interaction

Sub-Doppler Spectroscopy by Using Sodium Nanocell

International audience; We present for the first time the results of the sub-Doppler spectroscopy realized with a nanocell filled with a Sodium metal. The thickness L of the gap between the windows (which determines the length of the atomic vapor column) has a wedge in the vertical direction varying from 100 to 900 nm. It is demonstrated that the use of a nanocell with the thickness L=lambda/2 and L=lambda, where lambda is the wavelength of the dye laser radiation resonant with D2 line of Sodium, allows one to provide sub-Doppler spectroscopy of the Transmission and Fluorescence spectra of D2 lines of Sodium (lambda ~ 590 nm). A cw dye laser radiation with the linewidth of ~1 MHz and tunabl…

Peculiarities of Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency (EIT) in Extremely Thin Cell of alkali metal atomic vapour.

Quantitative spectroscopy of Rb atoms in a strong magnetic field based on submicron thin vapor cell

Electromanetically Induced Resonances in Sub-Micron Thin Rb-Vapor Layer

high contrast sub-natural resonance of increased absorption formed in cell filled with Rb and buffer gas

Narrow and contrast resonance of increased absorption in Λ-system observed in Rb cell with buffer gas

International audience; We report observation of a narrow (sub-natural) and high-contrast resonance of increased absorption (“bright” resonance) in Rb cell with Ne buffer gas under previously unexplored experimental conditions for coupling and probe radiation configuration. The coupling laser-stabilized frequency is detuned by ~3 GHz from 5S1/2, Fg=3 → 5P3/2, Fe=2,3,4 transitions, while the probe laser frequency is scanned across these transitions. We believe the bright resonance formation, occurring when the probe laser frequency is blue-shifted from the coupling frequency by a value of the ground state hyperfine splitting, is caused predominantly by a 2-photon absorption of the probe radi…

Calculation of modification of alkali metal atomic transition probability in strong external magnetic field and its application

International audience; Interaction of alkali atoms with external magnetic field induced a splitting and a shift of their energy levels. We have study this interaction for external field from 0 to 5000 Gauss when the alkali vapor is confined in submicron thin vapor cell with thickness L = λ/2. Rubidium and Sodium vapors have been studied. The Hamiltonian can be expressed as the sum of the unperturbated atomic Hamiltonian and the so-called Zeeman Hamiltonian. The probability of a transition, induced by the laser electric field is proportional to the square of the transfer coefficients modified by the presence of the magnetic field. We will show that the strong nonlinearity of the transition …

high-spatial-resolution monitoring of strong magnetic field using Rb nano-thin-cell

Absorption, fluorescence and EIT processes in the extremely thin cell filled with Rb and buffer gas neon

International audience; Comparison of the absorption and fluorescence in the nanocell (or so called extremely thin cell) filled with pure Rb with another one filled with Rb and Neon gas is provided. The effect of the collapse and revival of Dicke-type narrowing is still observable for thickness L=lambda/2, and lambda, where lambda , is a resonant laser wavelength either 780 nm, or 795 nm (for Rb, D2 or D1 line). For L=  so called velocity selective optical pumping (VSOP) resonance located at the atomic transition is still observable, while the linewidth is increased by 4 times in comparison with that obtained in the pure Rb nanocell. Comparison with the theory is presented. Electromagnetic…

Study of atomic vapor layers of nanometric thickness and atom-surface interaction

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