Observation of Oscillations in Resonance Absorption from a Coherent Superposition of Atomic States

29 December 1975

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 35 (26) , 1752-1754
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.35.1752

Abstract

A technique is described for high-resolution spectroscopy using resonance absorption from a laser to monitor the time evolution of a coherently excited superposition of atomic states. As a demonstration a measurement was made of the

3 {}^{2}P_{\frac{1}{2}}

hyperfine splitting in sodium.

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