Coherent population trapping with losses observed on the Hanle effect of thesodium line
- 1 May 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 55 (5), 3710-3718
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.55.3710
Abstract
We consider the coherent-population-trapping phenomenon in a thermal sodium atomic beam. We compare the different coherent-population-trapping schemes that can be established on the line using the Zeeman sublevels of a given ground hyperfine state. The coherent-population-trapping preparation is examined by means of a Hanle-effect configuration. The efficiency of the coherent-population-trapping phenomenon has been examined in presence of optical pumping into hyperfine levels external to those of the excited transition. We show that both the contrast and the width of the coherent population trapping resonance strongly decrease when the optical pumping rate is increased. In the experiment, the loss rate due to optical pumping has been controlled by means of a laser repump of variable intensity.
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