TY - JOUR
AU - T. Yoon
AU - A. Marian
AU - John Hall
AU - Jun Ye
AB - A two-photon transition in cold Rb atoms will be probed with a phase-coherent wide bandwidth femtosecond
laser comb. Frequency domain analysis yields a high-resolution picture where phase coherence among
various transition pathways through different intermediate states produces interference effects on the resonantly
enhanced transition probability. This result is supported by the time domain Ramsey interference effect.
The two-photon transition spectrum is analyzed in terms of the pulse repetition rate and carrier frequency
offset, leading to a cold-atom-based frequency stabilization scheme for both degrees of freedom of the femtosecond
laser.
BT - Physical Review A
DA - 2000-12
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.011402
N2 - A two-photon transition in cold Rb atoms will be probed with a phase-coherent wide bandwidth femtosecond
laser comb. Frequency domain analysis yields a high-resolution picture where phase coherence among
various transition pathways through different intermediate states produces interference effects on the resonantly
enhanced transition probability. This result is supported by the time domain Ramsey interference effect.
The two-photon transition spectrum is analyzed in terms of the pulse repetition rate and carrier frequency
offset, leading to a cold-atom-based frequency stabilization scheme for both degrees of freedom of the femtosecond
laser.
PY - 2000
T2 - Physical Review A
TI - Phase-coherent multilevel two-photon transitions in cold Rb atoms: Ultrahigh-resolution spectroscopy via frequency-stabilized femtosecond laser
VL - 63
SN - 1050-2947
ER -