dc.contributor.author | Grischkowsky, D. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-16T20:48:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-10-16T20:48:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1973-06 | |
dc.identifier | okds_Grischkowsky_APL_1973-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Grischkowsky, D. (1973). Adiabatic following and slow optical pulse propagation in rubidium vapor. Physical Review A, 7(6), 2096-2102. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.7.2096 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11244/19840 | |
dc.description.abstract | Short pulses of narrow-line low-intensity dye-laser light nearly resonant with the Zeeman-split 2P1/2 esonance line (7948 A) of rubidium were observed to propagate through dilute rubidium vapor as slowly as (1/14)c. These slow pulse velocities showed that most of the energy in the propagating wave was contained by the vapor as coherent atomic excitation. The observed pulse velocities vp are in good agreement with the equation vp=dw/dk for the group velocity obtained from linear-dispersion theory. Also, the experimental results are quantitatively explained by adiabatic following, in which the pseudomoments of the atoms remain aligned along the effective field of the laser light. The adiabatic-following model allows for a direct comparison of our results with the work on self-induced transparency. For high-intensity light, adiabatic following predicts a nonlinear pulse velocity and the possibility of observing self-steepening. | |
dc.format | application/pdf | |
dc.language | en_US | |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | |
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dc.title | Adiabatic following and slow optical pulse propagation in rubidium vapor | |
osu.filename | okds_Grischkowsky_APL_1973-06.pdf | |
dc.description.peerreview | Peer reviewed | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevA.7.2096 | |
dc.description.department | Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
dc.type.genre | Article | |
dc.type.material | Text | |