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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4030-4037 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Physical Review A |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1995 |