DIFFUSION OF RESONANCE RADIATION IN OPTICALLY SATURATED SODIUM VAPOR

Authors
STACEWICZ T KOTOWSKI T WIEWIOR P CHORAZY J
Citation
T. Stacewicz et al., DIFFUSION OF RESONANCE RADIATION IN OPTICALLY SATURATED SODIUM VAPOR, Optics communications, 100(1-4), 1993, pp. 99-104
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
100
Issue
1-4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
99 - 104
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1993)100:1-4<99:DORRIO>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
The Holstein-Biberman equation describing the evolution of the excited atom population in a dense sodium vapour optically saturated by a sho rt resonant light pulse was solved numerically. Results were compared with the solutions for a weakly excited vapour. It was found that in a strongly excited medium the decay of the Na(3P) atoms is faster than in the case of the weak excitation. A subnatural decay of the resonanc e fluorescence signal for some experimental geometries was predicted.