Abstract
We experimentally investigated the characteristics of two-photon transmission resonances in Rb vapor cells with different amounts of buffer gas under the conditions of steady-state coherent population trapping (CPT) and a pulsed Raman–Ramsey (RR) CPT interrogation scheme. We particularly focused on the influence of the Rb atoms diffusing in and out of the laser beam. We showed that this effect modifies the shape of both CPT and RR resonances as well as their projected performance for CPT clock applications. In particular we found that at moderate buffer gas pressures RR-CPT did not improve the projected atomic clock stability compared to the regular steady-state CPT resonance.
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