Optical-depth scaling of light scattering from a dense and cold atomic $^{87}$Rb gas
Atomic Physics
2020-03-25 v1 Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We report investigation of near-resonance light scattering from a cold and dense atomic gas of Rb atoms. Measurements are made for probe frequencies tuned near the nearly closed hyperfine transition, with particular attention paid to the dependence of the scattered light intensity on detuning from resonance, the number of atoms in the sample, and atomic sample size. We find that, over a wide range of experimental variables, the optical depth of the atomic sample serves as an effective single scaling parameter which describes well all the experimental data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.10939,
title = {Optical-depth scaling of light scattering from a dense and cold atomic $^{87}$Rb gas},
author = {K. J. Kemp and S. J. Roof and M. D. Havey and I. M. Sokolov and D. V. Kupriyanov and W. Guerin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.10939},
year = {2020}
}