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 hyperfine splitting in sodium.
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