Light-induced-drift stationary states
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 38 (3) , 1327-1334
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.38.1327
Abstract
The light-induced-drift (LID) effect has been experimentally studied in specially coated capillary cells which manifest a negligible atom-wall interaction. This property permits a rapid evolution of LID and makes possible an experimental study of the stationary states as a function of different laser tunings and laser power densities. The light-induced density profile along the major axis of the cell has been analyzed. The experimental features are qualitatively reproduced by a two-level theory.Keywords
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