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Two-photon microwave transitions and strong-field effects in a room-temperature Rydberg-atom gas

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Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Joshua A. Gordon

Abstract

We investigate two-photon transitions and strong-field effects on Rydberg atoms using Autler- Townes splitting of electromagnetically-induced transparency resonances in rubidium 85 atoms. We first drive the one-photon 62S1/2 - 62P3/2 transition for a reference measurement of the electricfield in our experiments. We then measure Rabi frequencies for the two-photon 62S1/2 - 63S1/2 and 61D5/2 - 62D5/2 Rydberg transitions via Rydberg EIT-AT, over an electric field range up to 40 V/m. A Floquet analysis is used to model field-induced level-shifts and state-mixing effects present in the strongly driven quantum systems under consideration. Calculations are found to be in good agreement with experimental observations.
Citation
Applied Physics
Volume
90
Issue
4

Keywords

Rydberg atoms, EIT, E-feild Measurements

Citation

Holloway, C. and Gordon, J. (2014), Two-photon microwave transitions and strong-field effects in a room-temperature Rydberg-atom gas, Applied Physics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.043419 (Accessed April 19, 2024)
Created October 29, 2014, Updated January 27, 2020