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Fabrication of High-purity Rb Vapor Cell for Electric Field Sensing

  • Jae-Keun Yoo (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) ;
  • Deok-Young Lee (Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Sin Hyuk Yim (Agency for Defense Development) ;
  • Hyun-Gue Hong (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) ;
  • Sun Do Lim (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) ;
  • Seung Kwan Kim (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) ;
  • Young-Pyo Hong (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) ;
  • No-Weon Kang (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) ;
  • In-Ho Bae (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
  • Received : 2022.11.16
  • Accepted : 2023.01.26
  • Published : 2023.04.25
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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce our system for manufacturing a Rb vapor cell and describe its fabrication process in a sequence of removing impurities, cold trapping, and sealing off. Saturated absorption spectroscopy was performed to verify the quality of our cell by comparing it to that of a commercial one. By using the lab-fabricated Rb vapor cell, we observed electromagnetically induced transparency in a ladder-type system corresponding to the 5S1/2-5P3/2-28D5/2 transition of the 85Rb atom. A highly excited Rydberg atomic system was prepared using two counter-propagating external cavity diode lasers with wavelengths of 780 nm and 480 nm. We also observed the Autler-Townes splitting signal while a radio-frequency source around 100 GHz incidents into the Rydberg atomic medium.

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Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) funded by the Korea government (MIST) (No. 2021-0-00890); Development of ultrasensitive electric field detection technology based on nonmetals.

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