Non-optical observation of laser-induced zero-field level-crossing effects in an atomic beam
- 28 February 1978
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 11 (4) , L105-L109
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/11/4/003
Abstract
Level-crossing effects have been detected non-optically with the use of a Rabi-type atomic-beam method. The sodium beam was excited by intense linearly polarised radiation from a CW narrow-band dye laser. Several superimposed resonances were observed in the atomic-beam signal when scanning the magnetic field around zero. The two narrower resonances are interpreted as high-order non-linear effects. They arise from the coupling of laser-induced Zeeman coherences in the ground state (including a hexa-decapole moment) with the populations of the Zeeman sublevels.Keywords
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