Line shapes in modulation transfer spectroscopy for 87Rb atoms
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Abstract
We present a theoretical and experimental study of line shape in modulation transfer spectroscopy for 87Rb atoms. A linearly polarized modulated pump beam overlaps in parallel with an unmodulated linearly polarized probe beam. As a result of nonlinear interaction with atoms modulated probe beams are generated. The detected modulation transfer signals are calculated by numerically solving the complete density-matrix equations for the 87Rb atoms. We find good agreement between calculated and experimental results.