4He (2 3Si) metastable atoms are optically pumped with intensity modulated light The use of a single mode diode-pumped LNA laser as the pumping source, allows the study of resonance signals predicted'by the optical pumping theory but not yet observed Resonances are detected on the transmitted pumping beam at the modulation frequency and its harmonics Application of this method to high sensitivi...

Miniature (<few cm) vapor-cell based devices using optical pumping of alkali atoms, such as atomic clocks and magnetometers, today mostly employ vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers as pump light sources. Here, we report on the demonstration of optical pumping in a microfabricated alkali vapor resonance cell using (1) a microfabricated Rb discharge lamp light source, as well as (2) a convent...

Observation of Rb Clusters in 129Xe Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping Cells By Electron Microscopy

We report generation of four-wave mixing enhanced by electromagnetically induced transparency and optical pumping in a ladder-type atomic system. When two pumping laser beams are used to form a conjugate small-angle static grating, both four-wave and six-wave mixing processes are shown to exist at the same time. Interference between these two nonlinear wave-mixing signals is experimentally demo...

Due to the benefits of Raman amplifier for Long-Haul UW-WDM Optical Communications Systems, we interest in this paper to investigate the parameters affecting on Raman gain and bandwidth, and also we are analyzed four and eight Raman pumping of special pump power and pumping wavelengths to show the effect of this parameters on gain and bandwidth. The model equations are numerically handled and p...