Kinetics of atoms in an elliptically polarized standing wave

O. N. Prudnikov; A. V. Taichenachev; A. M. Tumaikin; V. I. Yudin

doi:10.1117/12.328282

21 October 1998 Kinetics of atoms in an elliptically polarized standing wave

O. N. Prudnikov, A. V. Taichenachev, A. M. Tumaikin, V. I. Yudin

Proceedings Volume 3485, 11th International Vavilov Conference on Nonlinear Optics; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.328282
Event: Eleventh International Vavilov Conference on Nonlinear Optics, 1997, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

Abstract

The kinetics of atoms with the degenerated excited and ground states in an elliptically polarized wave is considered. In the simplest case of the 1/2 yields 1/2 transition it is shown that all kinetic coefficients essentially depend on the light ellipticity. In particular, in the low-saturation limit the friction force contains, apart from the well-known Doppler friction, a term that arises from a transition between adiabatic potentials and can be interpreted as the Sisyphus friction.

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O. N. Prudnikov, A. V. Taichenachev, A. M. Tumaikin, and V. I. Yudin "Kinetics of atoms in an elliptically polarized standing wave", Proc. SPIE 3485, 11th International Vavilov Conference on Nonlinear Optics, (21 October 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.328282

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