Self-induced transparency and coherent population trapping of 87Rb vapor in a mode-locked laser
Koji Masuda, Christoph Affolderbach, Gaetano Mileti, Jean-Claude Diels & Ladan Arissian
Résumé |
Simultaneous self-induced transparency and a dark line resonance are
observed inside a mode-locked laser. The circulating pulse, tuned to
the 795-nm optical resonance of rubidium, has sufficient intensity
to create at each passage a population inversion—return to ground
state, typical of self-induced transparency. A drop in fluorescence
(dark line resonance), is observed as the repetition rate is tuned
to a submultiple of the hyperfine ground-state splitting. |
Mots-clés |
Coherent optical effects; Hyperfine structure; Picosecond phenomena; Ultrafast phenomena; Mode-locked lasers |
Citation | K. Masuda, et al., "Self-induced transparency and coherent population trapping of 87Rb vapor in a mode-locked laser," Optics Letters, vol. 40, p. 2146-2149, May 2015. |
Type | Article de périodique (Anglais) |
Date de publication | 1-5-2015 |
Nom du périodique | Optics Letters |
Volume | 40 |
Numéro | 9 |
Pages | 2146-2149 |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1364/OL.40.002146 |