Observation of Rabi oscillations between Bloch bands in an optical potential

被引：51

作者：

Fischer, MC ^{[1
]}

Madison, KW ^{[1
]}

Niu, Q ^{[1
]}

Raizen, MG ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Texas, Dept Phys, Austin, TX 78712 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1998年 / 58卷 / 04期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevA.58.R2648

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We report an experimental study of atomic motion in the Bloch band of a periodic potential. Our system consists of cold sodium atoms in a far detuned standing wave of near resonant light. We prepare the atoms in the lowest motional band, and then impose phase modulation in order to drive interband transitions, We observe Rabi oscillations between the first and second band as a function of modulation intensity and frequency. We also observe damped oscillations of the population as a function of modulation frequency, which are primarily due to a spread in Rabi frequencies over the Bloch band. [S1050-2947(98)50110-2].

引用

页码：R2648 / R2651

页数：4

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