Measurement of Transition Dipole Moments in Lithium Dimers Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

J. Qi; F. C. Spano; T. Kirova; A. Lazoudis; J. Magnes; L. Li; L. M. Narducci; R. W. Field; A. M. Lyyra

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.173003

Measurement of Transition Dipole Moments in Lithium Dimers Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

J. Qi, F. C. Spano, T. Kirova, A. Lazoudis, J. Magnes, L. Li, L. M. Narducci, R. W. Field, and A. M. Lyyra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 173003 – Published 15 April 2002

Abstract

We have observed electromagnetically induced transparency in a Doppler broadened molecular cascade system using fluorescence detection. We demonstrate that the power-dependent splitting of lines in the upper-level fluorescence excitation spectrum can be used as a new spectroscopic tool for the measurement of molecular transition dipole moment functions.

Received 27 September 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.173003

Authors & Affiliations

J. Qi^1,*, F. C. Spano¹, T. Kirova¹, A. Lazoudis¹, J. Magnes¹, L. Li², L. M. Narducci³, R. W. Field^2,4, and A. M. Lyyra^1,†

¹Departments of Physics and Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
²Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 100084
³Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
⁴Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

^*Current address: Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269.
^†Corresponding author. Email address: Lyyra@temple.edu