Abstract
A large increase in atomic absorption due to coherent interaction with resonant radiation is predicted for a closed transition between two degenerate atomic levels verifying and are the total angular momentum of the ground and the excited levels, respectively). In good agreement with the theoretical prediction, a total absorption enhancement by a factor 1.7 was obtained on the line of in a vapor cell experiment.
- Received 11 September 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.59.4732
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