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This paper deals with experiments on a Fabry-Perot resonator filled by sodium atoms in a buffer gas atmosphere (Fig. 1a). The pressure broadening predominates the Doppler broadening and the hyperfine splitting in the sodium ground state. As a consequence the model of homogeneously broadened two-level atoms might be thought to be a good approximation. The spin of the sodium atoms, however, still has to be taken into account and it actually plays a crucial role in the experiments to be discussed here.
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Lange, W. (1988). Dynamics of Optical Bistability in Sodium and Transient Bimodality. In: Abraham, N.B., Arecchi, F.T., Lugiato, L.A. (eds) Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics II. NATO ASI Series, vol 177. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2548-0_17
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