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Quantum Beats in Transmission by Time-Resolved Polarization Spectroscopy

W. Lange, +1 more
- 22 May 1978 - 
- Vol. 40, Iss: 21, pp 1373-1375
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In this paper, the time evolution of a coherent superposition of atomic substates created by a short resonant laser pulse is monitored via changes in polarization of a delayed probe pulse due to stimulated emission.
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A novel technique is described for high-resolution spectroscopy. The time evolution of a coherent superposition of atomic substates created by a short resonant laser pulse is monitored via changes in polarization of a delayed probe pulse due to stimulated emission. As a demonstration the method was applied to the Zeeman splitting of the $6^{3}P_{1}$ state of ytterbium.

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Dynamic effects in nonlinear magneto-optics of atoms and molecules: review

Evgeniy B. Alexandrov, +5 more
- 01 Jan 2005 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a brief review is given of topics relating to dynamical processes arising in nonlinear interactions between light and resonant systems (atoms or molecules) in the presence of a magnetic field.
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Chapter 9 – Dynamics

Hélène Lefebvre-Brion, +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a short excitation pulse creates a coherent superposition of several nondegenerate eigenstates or quasi-eigenstates (that is, decaying states described in the complex energy formalism).
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Quantum beat spectroscopy of molecules

Erwin Hack, +1 more
- 01 Jul 1991 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the application of quantum beat in high-resolution spectroscopy is presented with special emphasis on the theoretical description of the quantum beat technique and its applications.
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A simple method of observing coherent ground state transients

Jürgen Mlynek, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1979 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that coherence between nondegenerate sublevels of an atomic ground state is efficiently induced by means of a short resonant light pulse, which can sensitively be detected by a polarization technique.
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Molecular quantum beat spectroscopy

H. Bitto, +1 more
- 15 Dec 1990 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an account of high-resolution molecular quantum beat spectroscopy and emphasize the versatility of this powerful Doppler-free method, which can be applied to intramolecular relaxation dynamics and the determination of structural parameters such as nuclear hyperfine constants, electric dipole moments, spin-orbit matrix elements and asymmetry splitting.