2008/05/16 by A. Sargsyan, Armen Sargsyan, Grant Hakhumyan +13
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0805.2539
arxiv created 2008/05/16 · openalex publication_date 2008/05/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We describe the so-called "Lambda-Zeeman method" to investigate individual hyperfine transitions between Zeeman sublevels of atoms in an external magnetic field of 0.1 mT - 0.25 T. Atoms are confined in a nanocell with thickness L = Lambda, where Lambda is the resonant wavelength (794 nm or 780 nm for D1 or D2 line of Rb). Narrow resonances in the transmission spectrum of the nanocell are split into several components in a magnetic field; their frequency positions and probabilities depend on the B-field. Possible applications are described, such as magnetometers with nanometric spatial resolution and tunable atomic frequency references.