The role of hyperfine pumping in multilevel systems exhibiting saturated absorption
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چکیده
We study pump–probe spectroscopy of Rb vapor. Absorption spectra are presented for a weak probe beam in a room temperature vapor subject to a strong counter propagating pump beam of identical frequency. The importance of hyperfine pumping in the formation of the sub-Doppler spectrum is explained. For typical experimental parameters we clarify why the standard designation of ‘‘saturated absorption’’ spectroscopy is a misnomer. In contrast to saturated absorption, the details of the transient solution are crucial and hyperfine pumping leads to a modification of the absorption for detunings of many tens of natural linewidths from resonance. © 2004 American Association of Physics
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