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Hi, I am not sure if this is an easy question, but I've been looking around and I haven't been able to find some exact equation to this.
I performed an experiment where I allowed for a laser beam to go through a cell (of Rubidium-85 and 87) and got the resulting spectrum. The initial [100%] power was P_{in}= 100 \mu W... Then using different transition rate (T) plates I was able to change the power of the beam...
So I was able to get the spectra's amplitudes A and widths \Delta v for different P_{incident} (check attachments)...
How is the P_{incident}(A), P_{incident}((\Delta v)^2) can give the saturation power P_{sat} and intensity I_{sat} ? In fact I don't know with what function to fit these P's since I only got 5 values and the function form is not obvious.
I performed an experiment where I allowed for a laser beam to go through a cell (of Rubidium-85 and 87) and got the resulting spectrum. The initial [100%] power was P_{in}= 100 \mu W... Then using different transition rate (T) plates I was able to change the power of the beam...
So I was able to get the spectra's amplitudes A and widths \Delta v for different P_{incident} (check attachments)...
How is the P_{incident}(A), P_{incident}((\Delta v)^2) can give the saturation power P_{sat} and intensity I_{sat} ? In fact I don't know with what function to fit these P's since I only got 5 values and the function form is not obvious.
