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Optical Pumping
T he rather odd term optical pumping means just what it says. In general “pumping” is a process of raising matter from lower to higher energy; for example, raising the potential energy of water hy moving it from an underground well to an elevated tank. In this article we shall he concerned w i t h the pumping of individual atoms from lower to higher states of internal energy. The word optical r...
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Optical pumping uses light to affect the internal degrees of freedom of a sample of atoms in a vapor. These internal degrees of freedom are angular momentum states of the atomic ground state, which are populated when light is absorbed and emitted. This experiment reveals many phenomena of quantum mechanics including angular momentum selection rules, the density matrix, and resonance. Optical pu...
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We consider optical pumping with a quasi monochromatic tunable light beam, in the low intensity limit where a rate equation regime is obtained The velocity selective optical pumping (V.S.O.P.) introduces a correlation between atomic velocity and internal variables in the ground (or metastable) state. The aim of this article is to evaluate these atomic observables (orientation, alignment, popula...
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A Rubidium high-frequency lamp is used as the pumping light source to excite Rubidium atoms in a sample cell. The pumping source light is filtered to transmit the D1 Rb line and polarizers are used to produce circular polarization. The circular polarization pumping mechanism selectively repopulates the sample cell ground state Rb Zeeman hyperfine levels away from thermal equilibrium populations...
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In 1950, French physicist Alfred Kastler introduced the concept of modern optical pumping, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1966. The process of optical pumping involves using photons of a desired wavelength and polarization to change the distribution of a gas of atoms from thermal equilibrium. Today, optical pumping is a critical tool in modern Physics experiments, and is the basis ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physics and High Technology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1225-2336
DOI: 10.3938/phit.19.022