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An undergraduate measurement of radiative broadening in atomic vapor

Andrew Hachtel, J. Kleykamp, Didier Kane, Mark D. Marshall, Bradley Worth, J. Barkeloo, Jayampathi Kangara, J. C. Camenisch, Matthew Gillette, Samir Bali

American Journal of Physics · 2012 · 11 citations · 9 references

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Abstract

We show that one may quantitatively investigate radiative broadening of atomic transitions in the undergraduate laboratory using a traditional saturated absorption spectroscopy setup.

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