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Original Articles

Coherent population trapping in an rf-optical double resonance experiment in a neon discharge

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Pages 295-306 | Received 24 Feb 2005, Accepted 29 Sep 2005, Published online: 23 Aug 2006
 

Abstract

We observed radio-frequency (rf) induced transparency for a probe optical field in an rf-optical double resonance experiment in a neon discharge. The origin of the transparency is coherent population trapping at Zeeman sublevels of the lower level of an optical transition of neon. Stokes and anti-Stokes optical fields were generated due to stimulated Raman scattering of both the radio-frequency field on the probe-induced optical coherence and the probe field on the Zeeman coherence.

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Victor Bondarenko for building the rf-generator and for invaluable technical assistance in the course of the experiment, and Evgeniy Radeonychev and Ilya Zelensky for fruitful discussions. This work was supported by RFBR (04-02-17042), NOW-RFBR 047.016.016, ISTC (A-1095) and AFOSR, ONR, NSF, and TARP.

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