On the unique possibility to increase significantly the contrast of dark resonances on D1 line of ${}^{87}$Rb

Abstract

We propose and study, theoretically and experimentally, a new scheme of excitation of a coherent population trapping resonance for D1 line of alakli atoms with nuclear spin $I=3/2$ by bichromatic linearly polarized light ({\em lin}$||${\em lin} field) at the conditions of spectral resolution of the excited state. The unique properties of this scheme result in a high contrast of dark resonance for D1 line of ${}^{87}$Rb.

9 pages, 7 figures. This material has been partially presented on ICONO-2005, 14 May 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia. v2 references added; text is changed a bit