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abstract

  • Ramsey fringes have been produced by stimulated resonance Raman scattering between ground-state hyperfine levels at two separated points along a sodium atomic beam. Observed transit time broadening was 1. 3 kHz (FWHM), as expected for the 30 cm separation of the two regions. The requisite two copropagating laser fields, omega //p (pump) and omega **s (stokes), were obtained by frequency shifting a portion of our tunable dye laser output using an acousto-optical modulator (AOM) such that omega //p minus omega **s equaled the hyperfine transition frequency. The linear polarizations of omega //p and omega **s were perpendicular to each other. The initial and final states were the F equals 1 and F equals 2 hyperfine levels of the 3**2s// one-half ground state. The resonant intermediate level was the 3**2p// one-half (F prime equals 2) state. A magnetic holding field (about 300 mG), parallel to the laser beams, was used to separate the magnetic sublevel.

name of conference

  • 36th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control

published proceedings

  • 36th Annual Symposium on Frequency Control

author list (cited authors)

  • C.C., L., Picard, R. H., Thomas, J. E., Hemmer, P. R., & Ezekiel, S.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • C.C., Leiby||Picard, RH||Thomas, JE||Hemmer, PR||Ezekiel, S

publication date

  • June 1982