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The absorption (amplification) spectrum of a weak probe field by two-level atoms located in a strong resonant laser field and colliding with buffer-gas atoms is analyzed theoretically. The analysis is performed for low collision frequencies compared to the Doppler absorption linewidth (low gas pressure) and with allowance made for an arbitrary change in the phase of the radiation-induced dipole moment at elastic collisions between gas particles. The phase memory effects have been found to lead to a strong qualitative and quantitative transformation of the probe-field spectrum even at rare collisions, when the well-known Dicke manifestation mechanism of the phase memory effects (the removal of Doppler broadening due to the restriction of the spatial particle motion by collisions) is inoperative. The strong influence of the phase memory effects on the spectral resonances at low gas pressures stems from the fact that the phase-conserving collisions change the velocity dependence of the partial refractive index n(v) (the refractive index for particles moving with velocity v).
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Original Russian Text © A.I. Parkhomenko, A.M. Shalagin, 2006, published in Zhurnal Éksperimentals’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2006, Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 465–476.
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Parkhomenko, A.I., Shalagin, A.M. Phase memory effects in probe-field spectroscopy of two-level systems at low collision frequencies. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 102, 406–416 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776106030046
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