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Phys. Rev. A 69, 013817 (2004) [11 pages]

Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation of frequency-modulated light resonant with a low-J transition

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Yu. P. Malakyan1,*, S. M. Rochester2,†, D. Budker2,3,‡, D. F. Kimball2,§, and V. V. Yashchuk2,**
1Institute for Physical Research, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Ashtarak-2, 378410, Armenia
2Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA
3Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

Received 14 September 2003; published 26 January 2004

A low-light-power theory of nonlinear magneto-optical rotation of frequency-modulated light resonant with a J=1⃗J=0 transition is presented. The theory is developed for a Doppler-free transition and then modified to account for Doppler broadening and velocity mixing due to collisions. The results of the theory are shown to be in qualitative agreement with experimental data obtained for the rubidium D1 line.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.69.013817
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.69.013817
PACS:
42.50.Gy, 32.80.Bx, 07.55.Ge

*Electronic address: yumal@ipr.sci.am

Electronic address: simonkeys@yahoo.com

Electronic address: budker@socrates.berkeley.edu

§Electronic address: dfk@uclink4.berkeley.edu

**Electronic address: yashchuk@socrates.berkeley.edu