https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2006-00261-5
Femtosecond laser pulse train effect on Doppler profile of cesium resonance lines
Institute of Physics, Bijenička 46, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Corresponding author: a natasav@ifs.hr
Received:
27
July
2006
Published online:
8
December
2006
We present direct observation of the velocity-selective optical pumping of the Cs ground state hyperfine levels induced by the femtosecond (fs) laser oscillator centered at either D2 (6 2S1/2↦6 2P3/2, 852 nm) or D1 (6 2S1/2↦6 2P1/2, 894 nm) cesium line. We utilized previously developed modified direct frequency comb spectroscopy (DFCS) which uses a fixed frequency comb for the excitation and a weak cw scanning probe laser centered at the 133Cs 6 2S1/2↦6 2P3/2 transition (D2 line) for ground levels population monitoring. The frequency comb excitation changes the usual Doppler absorption profile into a specific periodic, comblike structure. The mechanism of the velocity selective population transfer between the Cs ground state hyperfine levels induced by fs pulse train excitation is verified in a theoretical treatment of the multilevel atomic system subjected to a pulse train resonant field interaction.
PACS: 32.80.Qk – Coherent control of atomic interactions with photons / 42.50.Gy – Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption
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