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Chapter 4<br />

Experiments on the magic<br />

wavelength<br />

In this chapter we outline our efforts to determine the magic wavelength <strong>of</strong> Sodium.<br />

Although the measurements did not attain any meaningful results, we want to give a<br />

brief introduction to the idea <strong>of</strong> the measurement and shortly describe the experimental<br />

procedure.<br />

4.1 Scattering Rate<br />

In section 2.2 we described the interaction <strong>of</strong> a two-level atom with a monochromatic<br />

light field. However, an approach using coherent evolution <strong>of</strong> the amplitudes cannot<br />

describe spontaneous emission. In the two-level approximation this can be included<br />

using a density matrix formalism. <strong>The</strong> interaction <strong>of</strong> a two-level atom with electro-<br />

magnetic radiation in the case <strong>of</strong> purely radiative damping can then be described <strong>by</strong><br />

the optical Bloch equations [8]<br />

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