Open AccessОсобенности затухания свободной поляризации в ультратонких газовых ячейках
Author(s) -
А.Ч. Измайлов
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
žurnal tehničeskoj fiziki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1726-748X
pISSN - 0044-4642
DOI - 10.21883/os.2020.08.49699.39-20
Subject(s) - polarization (electrochemistry) , wavelength , monochromatic color , optics , dipole , laser , physics , atomic physics , materials science , molecular physics , chemistry , quantum mechanics
Optical effect of the free polarization decay is studied theoretically in the ultrathin gas cell whose inner thickness is less or order of the wavelength of exciting monochromatic laser pulse transmitted orthogonally to plane-parallel walls of the cell. New mechanism of the investigated effect is established which is caused by specifics of phase mismatch of light induced atomic dipole moments because of transit-time relaxation in such a cell. As a result, dynamics of the free polarization decay in the considered situation radically different from the known case in a usual (macroscopic) gas cell. Nontrivial oscillatory dependences of signals of the free polarization decay on the ratio of thickness of such a cell to the radiation wavelength of the exciting pulse have been discovered and analyzed.