弱射频场中Rydberg原子的电磁感应透明  

Electromagnetically induced transparency of a cesium Rydberg atom in weak radio-frequency field

作　　者：杨智伟[1] 焦月春[1] 韩小萱[1] 赵建明[1] 贾锁堂[1] 

机构地区：[1]量子光学与光量子器件国家重点实验室,山西大学激光光谱研究所,太原030006

出　　处：《物理学报》2017年第9期109-114,共6页Acta Physica Sinica

基　　金：国家重点基础研究发展计划(批准号:2012CB921603);国家自然科学基金(批准号:11274209,61475090);山西省留学基金(批准号:2014-009)资助的课题~~

摘　　要：在铯原子室温蒸气池中研究了弱射频场中Rydberg原子阶梯型三能级系统的电磁感应透明(EIT)效应.铯原子基态6S_(1/2)、第一激发态6P_(3/2)和Rydberg 48D_(5/2)态形成阶梯型三能级系统,探测光共振作用于6S_(1/2)(F=4)→6P_(3/2)(F′=5)的跃迁,耦合光在Rydberg跃迁线6P_(3/2)(F′=5)→48D_(5/2)附近扫描,形成Rydberg原子EIT.当对铯原子施加一个80 MHz的弱射频电场时,48D_(5/2)Rydberg原子的EIT光谱发生Stark频移和分裂,同时产生由射频场调制Rydberg能级的偶数级边带,测量结果与Floquet理论模拟的结果相符合.同时,改变弱射频电场的频率研究了铯Rydberg能级的自电离效应对Rydberg原子Stark谱的影响,据此,我们提出将电极板置于铯原子蒸气池内的方案以减少自电离效应的影响.在弱射频Stark谱中,mj=5/2的Stark谱与mj=1/2,3/2的二级边带形成多个能级交叉,这些能级交叉点提供了一种基于原子的精确校准射频电场的新方法.Rydberg atoms are highly excited atoms with large principal quantum number n, big sizes （~ n2） and long lifetimes （- n^3）. Rydberg atoms are very sensitive to an external field due to the large polarizabilities of Rydberg atoms （- n^7）. Electromagnetically induced transparency （EIT） of Rydberg atom provides an ideal method to detect Rydberg atoms without destroying atoms, and can be used to measure the external direct current and radio frequency （RF） field. In this paper, we study the EIT effect of a cesium ladder-type three-level atom involving Rydberg state exposed to a weak RF field. The ground state （6S1/2）, the excited state （6P3/2） and Rydberg state （48D5/2） constitute the Rydberg three-level system, in which the probe laser couples 6S1/2（F = 4） → 6P3/2（F＇ = 5） transition, whereas the coupling laser scans across the 6P3/2 →48D5/2 Rydberg transition. The coupling laser （510 nm laser, propagating in the z-axis direction and linear polarization in the y-axis direction） and the probe laser （852 nm laser, linear polarization in the y-axis direction） counter-propagate through a 50-mm-long cesium vapor cell at room temperature, yielding Rydberg EIT spectra. Rydberg EIT signal is detected as a function of the detuning of the coupling laser. When a weak RF （80 MHz） electric field polarized in the x-axis direction is applied to a pair of electrode plates located on both sides of the cesium cell, the EIT spectrum of Rydberg 48D5/2 shows the Stark splitting and the even order harmonic sidebands. The experimental results are analyzed by using the Floquet theory. The simulation results accord well with the experimentally measured results. F^rthermore, we also investigate the influence of the self-ionization effect of Rydberg atom on the Stark spectrum by changing the RF frequency. We put forward a proposal to avoid the effect of ionization by placing electrode plates in the cesium cell. In the weak RF-field domain, mj ： 5/2 Stark line crosses mj = 1/2, 3/2 side

关 键 词：RYDBERG原子 电磁感应透明 射频Stark光谱 

分 类 号：O562[理学—原子与分子物理]