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Modulation Transfer Through Coherence and Its Application to Atomic Frequency Offset Locking

  • B. N. Jagatap
  • , Ayan Ray
  • , Y. B. Kale
  • , Niharika Singh
  • , Q. V. Lawande

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Abstract

We discuss the process of modulation transfer in a coherently prepared three-level atomic medium and its prospective application to atomic frequency offset locking (AFOL). The issue of modulation transfer through coherence is treated in the framework of temporal evolution of dressed atomic system with externally superimposed deterministic flow. This dynamical description of the atom-field system offers distinctive advantage of using a single modulation source to dither passively the coherent phenomenon as probed by an independent laser system under pump-probe configuration. Modulation transfer is demonstrated experimentally using frequency modulation spectroscopy on a subnatural linewidth electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and a sub-Doppler linewidth Autler-Townes (AT) resonance in Doppler broadened alkali vapor medium, and AFOL is realized by stabilizing the probe laser on the first/third derivative signals. The stability of AFOL is discussed in terms of the frequency noise power spectral density and Allan variance. Analysis of AFOL schemes is carried out at the backdrop of closed loop active frequency control in a conventional master-slave scheme to point out the contrasting behavior of AFOL schemes based on EIT and AT resonances. This work adds up to the discussion on the subtle link between dressed state spectroscopy and AFOL, which is relevant for developing a master-slave type laser system in the domain of coherent photon-atom interaction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
PublisherSpringer
Pages217-234
Number of pages18
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameSpringer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
Volume76
ISSN (Print)1615-5653
ISSN (Electronic)2197-6791

Keywords

  • Allan Variance
  • Coherent Population Trapping
  • Electromagnetically Induce Transparency
  • Probe Laser
  • Pump Laser

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