Document Type

Article

Department/Program

Physics

Journal Title

Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics

Pub Date

2016

Volume

33

Issue

4

First Page

610

Abstract

We experimentally investigated the characteristics of two-photon transmission resonances in Rb vapor cells with different amounts of buffer gas under the conditions of steady-state coherent population trapping (CPT) and a pulsed Raman-Ramsey (RR) CPT interrogation scheme. We particularly focused on the influence of the Rb atoms diffusing in and out of the laser beam. We showed that this effect modifies the shape of both CPT and RR resonances as well as their projected performance for CPT clock applications. In particular we found that at moderate buffer gas pressures RR-CPT did not improve the projected atomic clock stability compared to the regular steady-state CPT resonance. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America

DOI

10.1364/JOSAB.33.000610

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