Evanescent wave diffraction of multi-level atoms
Abstract
Diffraction of multi-level atoms by an evanescent wave reflective diffraction grating is modeled by numerically solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation. We are able to explain the diffraction observed in experiments with metastable Neon. This is not possible using a two-level atom model. The multi-level model predicts sensitive dependence of diffraction on the laser polarization. For pure p-polarization of the lasers a dark state forms. Associated with this is high order diffraction.Keywords
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