ATOMIC COHERENCE EFFECTS WITHIN THE SODIUM D(1) MANIFOLD .3. LASING WITHOUT INVERSION VIA POPULATION TRAPPING uri icon

abstract

  • Transient lasing without inversion has been experimentally demonstrated in sodium vapour. The principle of this atomic coherence effect can be well understood from the theory of a simple four-level system. The experimental results match with numerical simulations which take the complete hyperfine structure of the sodium D 1 line into account. The differences between our system and a Raman laser are discussed.

published proceedings

  • QUANTUM OPTICS

author list (cited authors)

  • PADMABANDU, G. G., LI, X. F., SU, C., FRY, E. S., NIKONOV, D. E., ZHU, S. Y., MEYER, G. M., & SCULLY, M. O.

citation count

  • 8

complete list of authors

  • PADMABANDU, GG||LI, XF||SU, C||FRY, ES||NIKONOV, DE||ZHU, SY||MEYER, GM||SCULLY, MO

publication date

  • August 1994