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中国物理学会期刊

室温铯原子气室窄线宽相干布居振荡光谱

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.70.20210405

Narrow-linewidth coherent population oscillation spectroscopy of room-temperature cesium atomic ensemble

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.70.20210405
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  • 相干布居振荡(coherent population oscillations, CPO)光谱是一种原子布居数调制光谱, 主要利用两束位相锁定、频率差小于原子自发辐射线宽的耦合光和探测光与原子相互作用, 激光强度调制会导致原子布居数相干振荡, 实现窄带宽的探测光透射. 本文基于Λ型原子能级结构, 在室温铯原子系综中实现了相干布居振荡光谱, 光谱典型线宽小于50 kHz, 远低于5.2 MHz的自发辐射线宽. Λ型能级结构的相干布居振荡光谱线宽依赖多个简并能级系统的布居数关联振荡, 其不要求原子态的相位关联, 有利于在长激发态寿命的Rydberg原子系统中基于相干布居振荡获得窄线宽光谱, 从而提高基于Rydberg原子光谱的精密测量的灵敏度.

     

    Coherent population oscillations spectroscopy, which is based on the interaction between atoms and the phase locked laser, is a kind of atomic population modulation spectroscopy. When the laser frequency difference is less than natural width of energy level, the coherent oscillation of atomic population will be induced by laser intensity modulation so that the probe laser transmission with narrow bandwidth can be realized. For a closed two-level system (TLS), the spectral line-width is limited mainly by the spontaneous emission lifetime of the upper atomic energy level. As for a three-level atomic system of Λ configuration, the two linearly polarized beams with both σ+ and σ- polarization component, the laser-atom interaction satisfies the selection rule. The spectral line-width mainly depends on the ground-state relaxation time, and the dependence on the line-width of spontaneous radiation is eliminated. In this paper, the laser from a external-cavity diode laser has its frequency locked to Cesium 6\rmS_1/2\left( F = 3 \right) \to 6\rmP_3/2\left( F' = 3 \right) transition. The frequencies of the two beams are shifted down by two independent double-passed acousto-optic modulators (AOM) to nearly resonate to Cesium 6\rmS_1/2\left( F = 3 \right) \to 6\rmP_3/2\left( F' = 2 \right) transition. The probe beam and the coupling beam are superposed at polarization beam splitter (PBS) cube and transmitted through the magnetically shielded cesium vapor cell in the same direction. The two beams have approximately the same Gaussian diameter of 6.6 mm. The beams are separated by another PBS behind the vapor cell, and the probe beam is detected by a photodiode. We realize the coherent population oscillation spectroscopy through the Cesium vapor cell at room temperature without buffer gas. The spectral linewidth is typically less than 50 kHz which is far below the spontaneous radiation linewidth(~5.2 MHz). The linewidth of coherent population oscillation spectroscopy of the Λ-type atomic energy level structure depends only on the population associated with the oscillation of multiple degenerate level systems except phase correlations of atomic states. Coherent population oscillation is beneficial to the obtaining of the narrow linewidth spectroscopy through the Rydberg atomic system with long excited state lifetime. Considering the importance of electric field measurement using Rydberg atoms, the method of coherent population oscillation can be used to improve the sensitivity of precise measurements based on Rydberg atoms.

     

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