Evanescent wave diffraction of multi-level atoms
arXiv:atom-ph/9604004 · doi:10.1016/0030-4018(96)00237-4
Abstract
Diffraction of multi-level atoms by an evanescent wave reflective diffraction grating is modeled by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. We are able to explain the diffraction observed in experiments with metastable Neon. This is not possible using a two-level atom model. The multi-level model predicts sensitive dependence of diffraction on the laser polarization and on the intensity ratio of incoming and reflected laser beams.
Due to an error in the computer code some conclusions and figures have changed.13 pages, 5 postscript figures, elsart.sty