DYNAMICS OF LASER-BEAM SWITCHING IN SODIUM VAPOR

被引：7
作者：
DANGEL, S
ESCHLE, P
ROHRICHT, B
RUSCH, U
SCHMID, H
HOLZNER, R
机构：
[1] Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Zürich, CH-8057
来源：
JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS | 1995年 / 12卷 / 04期
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D O I：
10.1364/JOSAB.12.000681
中图分类号：
O43 [光学];
学科分类号：
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要：
The interaction of left- and right-hand circularly polarized narrow-band cw laser beams that copropagate through sodium vapor and are tuned to the homogeneously broadened D1 transition can lead to the mutual extinction of both beams. Such beam switching is caused by an intensity- and polarization-dependent refractive index due to optical pumping even at low intensities. The dynamics of beam switching is investigated experimentally and explained qualitatively by the conventional J = 1/2 to J = 1/2 transition model. The accurate quantitative description, however, is only achieved by an extended model comprising hyperfine ground states in spite of homogeneous line broadening by argon buffer gas, which is larger than the hyperfine splitting.
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