Doppler-free Two-photon Spectroscopy of Yb Atoms and Efficient Generation of a Cascade of Two Photons at 611.3 nm and 555.8 nm
- Authors
- Song, Minsoo; Yoon, Duseong; Yoon, Tai Hyun
- Issue Date
- 10월-2011
- Publisher
- KOREAN PHYSICAL SOC
- Keywords
- Correlated two-photon generation; Doppler-free two-photon spectroscopy
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, v.59, no.4, pp.2926 - 2931
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
- Volume
- 59
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 2926
- End Page
- 2931
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/111416
- DOI
- 10.3938/jkps.59.2926
- ISSN
- 0374-4884
- Abstract
- We performed high-resolution Doppler-free two-photon spectroscopy of Yb atoms in an effusive atomic beam and generated a cascade of two photons at 611.3 nm (idler) and 555.8 nm (signal) with a narrow bandwidth of 37 MHz. Efficient population transfer from the ground state (6s(2) (1)S(0)) to the upper state (6s7s (1)S(0)), where direct transition at 291.1 nm is dipole forbidden, was achieved through a resonant two-photon excitation enhanced by the electromagnetically-induced transparency mediated by the intermediate state (6s6p (1)P(1)). From the upper state, a cascade of two photons in sequence was emitted via the spin triplet state (6s(2) (3)P(1)). Numerical calculations of the density matrix equations taking into account the residual Doppler effect and strong driving fields explain quantitatively the experimental results for the dependences of the idler and the signal beam intensities on the various parameters of the driving fields. We report on the generation of a cascade of two photons with fluxes at the level of a few times 10(6) photons/s detected at a solid angle of 0.01 Sr.
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