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Diffusion-broadened line shape near a turning point

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The absorption spectrum of a gas with a large Doppler width and soft collisions between particles is studied. The particles are assumed to have a nonlinear dependence of the resonance frequency on velocity. The shape of the narrow peak in the spectrum resulting from an extremum of this dependence is calculated analytically for the first time. In the absence of collisions it has a characteristic asymmetric shape. Collisions are shown to broaden the line and change its shape. The profile of the probe-field spectrum is obtained for a three-level system with the strong field at an adjacent transition. The components of the Autler-Townes doublet are found to spread and repel each other because of collisions.

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  1. Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    D. A. Shapiro & M. G. Stepanov

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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 68, No. 1, 27–32 (10 July 1998)

Published in English in the original Russian journal. Edited by Steve Torstveit.

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Shapiro, D.A., Stepanov, M.G. Diffusion-broadened line shape near a turning point. Jetp Lett. 68, 29–35 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567829

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