We study by computation and experiment an electromagnetically induced absorption resonance in the Hanle configuration with a transverse magnetic field on a closed Fg → Fe = Fg+1 transition with co-propagating orthogonal circularly polarized probe and coupling optical fields. At high coupling field intensities, the Hanle resonance changes sign due to a shift in atomic population from Zeeman sublevels associated with a probe field cyclic transition to sublevels associated with a coupling field cyclic transition at zero magnetic field. We also show that a similar sign reversal does not occur for π-polarized and σ-polarized coupling fields.
The enhanced absorption Hanle effect has been studied for a closed transition Jg = 2 → Je = 3 with a transverse magnetic field in the presence of a coupling optical field. From an analysis of the individual probe and coupling field absorption profiles, it is shown that the Hanle electromagnetically induced absorption is governed by the transfer of Δm = ±2 and Δm = ±1 Zeeman coherences from the excited state to the ground state via spontaneous emission. The individual coherence contributions are governed by the intensity ratio of the optical fields. We show by computation and experiment that the magnetic field dependence of the forward scattered intensity can be used to distinguish the transfer of coherence contributions to the Hanle profile.
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