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Compensation of Doppler Broadening by Velocity-Dependent Light-Shifts

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Laser Spectroscopy IV

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When a 2-level atom is irradiated by a quasi-resonant light bean, having a frequency ωL close to the atomic frequency ωO, its energy levels a and b are shifted. Perturbation theory shows that the so called light-shift t εa of the lower level a (which is equal to −εa) is proportional to the light-intensity I and inversely proportional to the detuning ωL–ωO, provided that this detuning is not too small.

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Reynaud, S., Himbert, M., Dupont-Roc, J., Cohen-Tannoudji, C. (1979). Compensation of Doppler Broadening by Velocity-Dependent Light-Shifts. In: Walther, H., Rothe, K.W. (eds) Laser Spectroscopy IV. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38950-7_12

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