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2.7.2 Saturation Absorption Spectroscopy<br />

Saturation absorption spectroscopy is a nonlinear Doppler-free spectro-<br />

scopic technique [18, 79]. <strong>The</strong> standard setup for this technique is shown in<br />

Fig. 2.14. A beam splitter separates a beam into a weak probe beam and a<br />

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Figure 2.14: A typical saturation absorption spectroscopy setup applied to<br />

87 Rb. A laser is divided unequally into two beam paths. An intense pump<br />

beam overlaps a weaker counter-propagating probe beam in an atomic vapor<br />

cell. <strong>The</strong> transmission intensity <strong>of</strong> the probe beam is monitored with a<br />

photodiode as a function <strong>of</strong> laser frequency.<br />

strong pump beam which travel in opposite directions and overlap in a vapor<br />

cell. <strong>The</strong> intensity <strong>of</strong> the pump beam is typically larger than the saturation<br />

intensity <strong>of</strong> the transition (Ipump Isat), while the probe beam is much less<br />

intense (Iprobe ≪ Isat). <strong>The</strong> intensity <strong>of</strong> the transmission <strong>of</strong> the probe beam<br />

is monitored as a function <strong>of</strong> laser frequency. Figure 2.15(a) shows a typical<br />

result <strong>of</strong> such a measurement in the absence <strong>of</strong> a pump beam when probing<br />

a single transition. <strong>The</strong> result is a Doppler broadened absorption pr<strong>of</strong>ile <strong>of</strong><br />

width ∆ωD.<br />

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