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ground state depletion due to the pump beam reduces the absorption <strong>of</strong> the<br />

probe beam producing the sharp peak in Fig. 2.15(b). <strong>The</strong> width <strong>of</strong> this peak<br />

is given by Eq. 2.101 and is much smaller than the Doppler width.<br />

If there are several excited states separated by less than the Doppler<br />

width which share a common ground state then the spectrum obtained displays<br />

cross-over resonances. This situation is depicted in Fig. 2.16. Cross-over<br />

resonances appear midway between true transitions and result from atoms<br />

moving with velocity such that one transition is resonant with the pump beam<br />

while the other transition is resonant with the probe beam.<br />

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Figure 2.16: (a) An atom has two excited states within the Doppler width<br />

which share a common ground state. (b) <strong>The</strong> resulting spectrum obtained<br />

with the saturated absorption technique has in addition to two peaks corresponding<br />

to the center <strong>of</strong> each transition a third peak known as a “cross-over<br />

resonance.” This peak comes from atoms with velocity such that the pump<br />

beam is resonant with one transition, while at the same time the probe beam<br />

is resonant with the other transition. This always occurs exactly between the<br />

two real transition frequencies and due to this symmetry the appearance <strong>of</strong><br />

cross-over resonances usually does not present added ambiguity in interpreting<br />

a spectrum.<br />

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