https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2002-00228-6
Pump-probe spectroscopy of atoms cooled in a 3D lin⊥lin optical lattice
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'École
Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05,
France
Corresponding author: a Ferruccio.Renzoni@lkb.ens.fr
Received:
8
April
2002
Revised:
9
September
2002
Published online:
12
November
2002
We describe the pump-probe spectroscopy of atoms cooled in a 3D lin
lin
optical lattice. Our pump-probe configuration consists of two laser fields
detuned with respect to the lattice fields. This scheme allows to clearly
identify in the probe transmission spectrum the Brillouin and Raman resonances,
by studying their positions as functions of the angle between the pump and
probe beams. We describe these resonances in detail, and compare the
experimental results to the theoretical predictions. Our conclusions are
supported by transport-spectroscopy measurements, which allow to distinguish
between contributions to the light scattering from propagating and
non-propagating atoms.
PACS: 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems / 42.65.Es – Stimulated Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering / 32.80.Pj – Optical cooling of atoms; trapping
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2003
