A Three-Photon Rydberg Atom-Based Radio Frequency Sensing Scheme with Narrow Linewidth
Atomic Physics
2023-04-18 v1
Abstract
We demonstrate Rydberg atom-based radio frequency sensing with a colinear three-photon scheme in a room temperature cesium vapor cell that minimizes residual Doppler broadening of the probe laser absorption feature. A sub-200 kHz spectral linewidth is observed and extends the self-calibrated Autler-Townes sensing regime to weaker fields by a factor of ~18 compared to the theoretical limit of the most commonly used two-photon scheme. The sensitivity of the method to microsecond pulses is shown to be sufficient to detect radio frequency Rabi frequencies of 2 x 0.44 MHz using a 480 kHz bandwidth at 108.9 GHz, demonstrating the ability to sense time-dependent signals suitable for radar and communications.
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@article{arxiv.2304.07409,
title = {A Three-Photon Rydberg Atom-Based Radio Frequency Sensing Scheme with Narrow Linewidth},
author = {Stephanie M. Bohaichuk and Fabian Ripka and Vijin Venu and Florian Christaller and Chang Liu and Matthias Schmidt and Harald Kübler and James P. Shaffer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07409},
year = {2023}
}