We demonstrate a new technique for saturated-absorption spectroseopy by use of copropagating beams that does not have the problem of crossover resonances. The pump beam is locked to a transition, and its absorption signal is monitored while the probe beam is scanned. As the probe comes into resonance with another transition, the pump absorption is reduced and the signal shows a Doppler-free dip. We use this technique to measure hyperfine intervals in the D 2 line of 85 Rb with a precision of 70 kHz and to resolve hyperfine levels in the D 2 line of 39 K that are less than 10 MHz apart. © 2003 Optical Society of America.
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Banerjee, A., & Natarajan, V. (2003). Saturated-absorption spectroscopy: eliminating crossover resonances by use of copropagating beams. Optics Letters, 28(20), 1912. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.28.001912
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