Autler-Townes effect

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English

Etymology

Named after American physicists Stanley Autler and Charles H. Townes who discovered the effect in 1955.

Noun

Autler-Townes effect (plural Autler-Townes effects)

  1. (physics) A dynamical Stark effect corresponding to the case when an oscillating electric field (e.g., that of a laser) is tuned in resonance (or close) to the transition frequency of a given spectral line, and resulting in a change of the shape of the absorption/emission spectra of that spectral line.

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