DOPPLER BROADENING AND COLLISIONAL RELAXATION EFFECTS IN A LASING-WITHOUT-INVERSION EXPERIMENT

被引:27
作者
GRAF, M
ARIMONDO, E
FRY, ES
NIKONOV, DE
PADMABANDU, GG
SCULLY, MO
ZHU, SY
机构
[1] MAX PLANCK INST QUANTUM OPT, D-85740 GARCHING, GERMANY
[2] UNIV PISA, DIPARTIMENTO FIS, I-56100 PISA, ITALY
[3] HOUSTON ADV RES CTR, TEXAS LASER LAB, THE WOODLANDS, TX 77381 USA
[4] TEXAS A&M UNIV, DEPT PHYS, COLLEGE STN, TX 77843 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1995年 / 51卷 / 05期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.51.4030
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
In the early experiments on optical pumping and coherent population trapping (''dark resonances'') increasing buffer gas pressure enhances the effect. In our recent lasing-without-inversion experiments, based on population trapping, we find the opposite behavior, namely, decreasing atomic coherence with increasing buffer gas pressure. We provide a theoretical explanation of this result in agreement with experiment. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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页码:4030 / 4037
页数:8
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