Photon-echo interferometry to measure collision-induced optical phase shifts
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 49 (1) , 379-396
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.49.379
Abstract
We demonstrate a technique of photon-echo interferometry which provides extraordinary sensitivity for the measurement of the relative phase in the coherences for pairs of optical transitions. The method is applied to study collision-induced optical-coherence transfer between adjacent transitions in atomic samarium vapor.Keywords
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