The spectroscopy of hot atomic vapours is a hot topic. Many of the work-horse techniques of
contemporary atomic physics were first demonstrated in hot vapours. Alkali-metal atomic …

We present a computer program and underlying model to calculate the electric susceptibility
of a gas, which is essential to predict its absorptive and dispersive properties. Our program …

We measure the near-resonant transmission of light through a dense medium of potassium
vapor confined in a cell with nanometer thickness in order to investigate the origin and …

It is interesting to observe that all optical materials with a positive refractive index have a
value of index that is of order unity. Surprisingly, though, a deep understanding of the …

We investigate experimentally and theoretically the Faraday effect in an atomic medium in
the hyperfine Paschen–Back regime, where the Zeeman interaction is larger than the …

In this letter we study magnetic circular dichroism in alkali atoms exhibiting asymmetric
behaviour of magnetically induced transitions. The magnetic field $\textbf {B}\parallel\textbf …

By measuring the transmission of near-resonant light through an atomic vapor confined in a
nanocell we demonstrate a mesoscopic optical response arising from the nonlocality …

We present experimental observations of atom-light interactions within tens of nanometers
(down to 11 nm) of a sapphire surface. Using photon counting we detect the fluorescence …

We investigate experimentally and theoretically the coherent and incoherent processes in
open three-level ladder systems in room temperature gases and identify in which regime …

We study the resonant saturation of selective reflection at the interface between a
transparent dielectric and high-density rubidium vapor on the D 2-line. Our estimates …