Phys. Rev. A 63, 023820 (2001) [9 pages]Light guiding light: Nonlinear refraction in rubidium vaporReceived 3 August 2000; published 18 January 2001 Recently there has been experimental and theoretical interest in cross-dispersion effects in rubidium vapor, which allows one beam of light to be guided by another. We present theoretical results which account for the complications created by the D line hyperfine structure of rubidium as well as the presence of the two major isotopes of rubidium. This allows the complex frequency dependence of the effects observed in our experiments to be understood and lays the foundation for future studies of nonlinear propagation. © 2001 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.023820
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.63.023820
PACS:
42.50.Gy, 42.50.Hz, 42.65.Jx, 32.10.Dk
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