Coherent Transient Study of Velocity-Changing Collisions

29 October 1973

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

Vol. 31 (18) , 1103-1106
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.31.1103

Abstract

The effect of velocity-changing collisions on the optical phase memory of coherently prepared molecular gas samples is examined by the method of Stark-pulse switching. Experiments are interpreted through the solution of a transport equation, which extends the earlier Fokker-Planck description known both in NMR and in Dicke line narrowing. The magnitude of a characteristic velocity jump for binary molecular collisions and its cross section are thereby obtained.

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