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Doppler broadening and collisional relaxation effects in a lasing-without-inversion experiment

  • Martin Graf*
  • , Ennio Arimondo
  • , Edward S. Fry
  • , Dmitri E. Nikonov
  • , G. G. Padmabandu
  • , Marlan O. Scully
  • , Shi Yao Zhu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In the early experiments on optical pumping and coherent population trapping (''dark resonances'') increasing buffer gas pressure enhances the effect. In our recent lasing-without-inversion experiments, based on population trapping, we find the opposite behavior, namely, decreasing atomic coherence with increasing buffer gas pressure. We provide a theoretical explanation of this result in agreement with experiment.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4030-4037
Number of pages8
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume51
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1995

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