Multi-photon Resonance Phenomena Using Laguerre-Gaussian Beams

Seyedeh Hamideh Kazemi; Mohammad Mahmoudi

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Multi-photon Resonance Phenomena Using Laguerre-Gaussian Beams

Seyedeh Hamideh Kazemi·Mohammad Mahmoudi

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We study the influence of laser profile on the linewidth of the optical spectrum of multi-photon resonance phenomena. First, we investigate the dependence of the absorption spectrum on the laser profile in a two-level system. Thanks to the Laguerre-Gaussian field, the linewidth of the one-photon optical pumping and two-photon absorption peaks are explicitly narrower than that obtained with a Gaussian field. In next section, it is shown that, comparing with the the Gaussian fields, the Laguerre-Gaussian ones reduce the linewidth of the optical spectrum in the coherent population trapping. Interestingly, it turns out that its use of a Laguerre-Gaussian beam makes the linewidth of the spectrum narrower as compared with a Gaussian one in a Doppler-broadened electromagnetically induced transparency. Moreover, we study the effect of the laser profile on the Autler-Townes doublet structure in the absorption spectrum for a laser-driven four-level atomic system. We also consider the different values of the Laguerre-Gaussian mode beam waist, and, perhaps more remarkable, we find that for the small values of waist, the Autler-Townes doublet can be removed and a prominent narrow central peak appears in the absorption spectrum. Finally, we investigate the effect of the laser profile on the linewidth of the sub-natural three-photon absorption peak of double dark resonance. The differences in the linewidth are quite large, offering potential applications in metrology and isotope separation methods. Our results can be used for super ultra high resolution laser spectroscopy and to improve the resolution of the technology of isotope/isomer separation and photo-biology even at essential overlap of the spectra of the different particles.

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Seyedeh Hamideh Kazemi, Mohammad Mahmoudi. 2016-07-27. Multi-photon Resonance Phenomena Using Laguerre-Gaussian Beams. https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08281

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