Effects of radiative decay in four-wave-mixing spectroscopy: Narrow resonances produced by nonconservation of population, alignment, and orientation
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 38 (1) , 252-262
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.38.252
Abstract
We present experimental and theoretical results describing the presence of radiative-decay-induced narrow resonances in systems which do not conserve population, alignment, or orientation. We show how spectroscopic line-shape analysis of the nonlinear response can be used to determine all of the relaxation parameters characterizing a two-level atom.Keywords
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