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A technique is described for high-resolution spectroscopy using resonance absorption from a laser to monitor the time evolution of a coherently excited superposition of atomic states. As a demonstration a measurement was made of the 3²P1/2 hyperfine splitting in sodium.
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Ducas et al. (1975) studied this question.
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