Sub-Doppler spectroscopy of Rydberg atoms via velocity selection memory in a hot vapor cell

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Autores principales: Butery, Esther, Dutta, Biplab, Santos, Stephany, Barreiro, Sergio, Martins, Weliton, Failache, Horacio, Laliotis, Athanasios
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author Butery, Esther
Dutta, Biplab
Santos, Stephany
Barreiro, Sergio
Martins, Weliton
Failache, Horacio
Laliotis, Athanasios
author_facet Butery, Esther
Dutta, Biplab
Santos, Stephany
Barreiro, Sergio
Martins, Weliton
Failache, Horacio
Laliotis, Athanasios
contents We study resonance redistribution mechanisms inside a hot vapor cell. This is achieved by pumping atoms on the first cesium resonance, 6S1/2-->6P1/2, and subsequently probing the velocity distribution of the 6P1/2 population by a linear absorption experiment on the 6P1/2-->16S1/2 or 6P1/2-->15D3/2 transitions at 514 nm and 512 nm respectively. We demonstrate that despite the existence of thermalization processes, traces of the initial velocity selection, imposed by the pump, survive in both hyperfine levels of the intermediate (6P1/2) state. This observation, allows us to perform sub-Doppler resolution vapor cell spectroscopy on Rydberg states using a simple pump-probe setup. At high cesium densities, redistribution mechanisms dominate, and the velocity selection vanishes. However, spectral analysis provides information on the collisional shifts and broadenings of the probed Rydberg states.
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spellingShingle Sub-Doppler spectroscopy of Rydberg atoms via velocity selection memory in a hot vapor cell
Butery, Esther
Dutta, Biplab
Santos, Stephany
Barreiro, Sergio
Martins, Weliton
Failache, Horacio
Laliotis, Athanasios
Atomic Physics
Quantum Physics
We study resonance redistribution mechanisms inside a hot vapor cell. This is achieved by pumping atoms on the first cesium resonance, 6S1/2-->6P1/2, and subsequently probing the velocity distribution of the 6P1/2 population by a linear absorption experiment on the 6P1/2-->16S1/2 or 6P1/2-->15D3/2 transitions at 514 nm and 512 nm respectively. We demonstrate that despite the existence of thermalization processes, traces of the initial velocity selection, imposed by the pump, survive in both hyperfine levels of the intermediate (6P1/2) state. This observation, allows us to perform sub-Doppler resolution vapor cell spectroscopy on Rydberg states using a simple pump-probe setup. At high cesium densities, redistribution mechanisms dominate, and the velocity selection vanishes. However, spectral analysis provides information on the collisional shifts and broadenings of the probed Rydberg states.
title Sub-Doppler spectroscopy of Rydberg atoms via velocity selection memory in a hot vapor cell
topic Atomic Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02665