Selective reflection of a laser beam from a dilute rubidium vapor Academic Article

abstract

• We study the selective reflection of the laser beam from rubidium atomic vapor at the D2 line (wavelength = 780 nm) at different atomic densities. We use a tunable free-running diode laser. We observed a measurable signal at a low atomic density N when the mean distance between resonance atoms reached two wavelengths. In our experiment, the dimensionless parameter N1/3 varied from 0.5 to 2.8. The reflectivity increased with density monotonically. It is interesting to perform experiments when the parameter N1/3 1. 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.

authors

• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF RUSSIAN LASER RESEARCH

author list (cited authors)

• Sautenkov, V. A., Varzhapetyan, T. S., Li, H., Sarkisyan, D., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

• 12

complete list of authors

• Sautenkov, Vladimir A||Varzhapetyan, Tigran S||Li, Hebin||Sarkisyan, David||Scully, Marlan O

publication date

• May 2010

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Russian Laser Research  Journal

keywords

• Atomic Vapor
• Laser
• Selective Reflection
• Spectral Line

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s10946-010-9143-5

start page

• 270

end page

• 275

volume

• 31

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10946-010-9143-5