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Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 173003 (2002) [4 pages]

Measurement of Transition Dipole Moments in Lithium Dimers Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

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J. Qi1 *, F. C. Spano1, T. Kirova1, A. Lazoudis1, J. Magnes1, L. Li2, L. M. Narducci3, R. W. Field2,4, and A. M. Lyyra1 †
1Departments of Physics and Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
2Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 100084
3Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
4Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Received 27 September 2001; published 15 April 2002

We have observed electromagnetically induced transparency in a Doppler broadened molecular cascade system using fluorescence detection. We demonstrate that the power-dependent splitting of lines in the upper-level fluorescence excitation spectrum can be used as a new spectroscopic tool for the measurement of molecular transition dipole moment functions.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.173003
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.173003
PACS: 33.40.+f, 42.50.Hz

* Current address: Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269.
† Corresponding author. Email address: Lyyra@temple.edu

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