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Chapter 5 Stimulated Raman transitions 24<br />
5.1 General description <strong>of</strong> spatially resolved stimulated Raman transitions . 24<br />
5.2 Limitations for spatially resolved Raman transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br />
5.2.1 Spectral resolution limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />
5.2.2 Velocity-limited resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />
5.2.3 Acceleration-limited resolution and the Heisenberg uncertainty<br />
principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />
5.3 Raman transitions in a three level atom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />
5.3.1 Three-level amplitude equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
5.3.2 Adiabatic Reduction to a two-level system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />
5.4 Raman transition in a multi-level atom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />
5.4.1 Multiple initial and final states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />
5.4.2 Multiple intermediate states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />
5.5 Raman transitions in a magnetic field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />
Chapter 6 Raman transitions <strong>of</strong> Sodium atoms 40<br />
6.1 Magnetic detuning from Raman Resonance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />
6.2 Dipole matrix elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />
6.3 Effective Raman-Rabi frequencies and final state probability . . . . . . . 41<br />
6.4 Numerical results for Sodium atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44<br />
6.5 Experimental procedure to determine the transfer efficiency <strong>of</strong> stimu-<br />
lated Raman transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />
Appendix A Wigner-Eckart <strong>The</strong>orem 51<br />
Appendix B Properties <strong>of</strong> Sodium 53<br />
B.1 General properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />
B.2 Sodium in an external magnetic field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55<br />
B.3 Dipole matrix elements for Sodium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />
Appendix C Einstein-coefficients for Rubidium 62<br />
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