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Multiphotonic High Resolution Spectroscopy

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Atomic Physics 5

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I wish here to review the work done during the three last years with Doppler-free multiphotonic spectroscopy. The principle of the cancelation of the Doppler effect in two-photon transitions is now well known : the laser beam which produces the two-photon transition is reflected back on itself by a mirror ; if the atom absorbs simultaneously one photon of each of the two oppositely traveling waves, the Doppler shift of one photon cancels exactly the Doppler shift of the other : all the atoms undergo the two-photon transitions for the same laser frequency whatever their velocities may be. The principle of this effect was noticed first by Vasilenko, Chebotaev and Shishaev (1). In our laboratory we arrived later, independently, to the same idea ; our calculations, performed with Grynberg and Biraben (2), showed the possibility to realize actually high resolution experiments with this method : possibility to obtain sufficient signal with the small power of dye lasers in single frequency operation — possibility to reduce the light shifts (or dynamical Stark effect) far below the natural width. Furthermore, we proposed the generalization to multiphotonic transitions (more than two photons) as we will see later.

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Cagnac, B. (1977). Multiphotonic High Resolution Spectroscopy. In: Marrus, R., Prior, M., Shugart, H. (eds) Atomic Physics 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4202-1_9

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