Cesium alignment produced by pumping with unpolarized light
- Shi, Yongqi Physics Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Weis, Antoine Physics Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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01.04.2018
Published in:
- The European Physical Journal D. - 2018, vol. 72, no. 4, p. 73
English
We demonstrate optical pumping on the four hyperfine components of the Cs D1 transition by unpolarized (UPL) resonant laser light. The evidence is based on the reduction of the absorption coefficients κ0 with increasing light power P in an uncoated Cs vapor cell with isotropic spin relaxation. For comparison we perform the same quantitative κ0(P) measurements with linearly-polarized light (LPL) and circularly-polarized light (CPL). We find that our previously published algebraic expressions give an excellent description of all experimentally recorded induced transparency signals. Based on this we can make reliable absolute predictions for the power dependence of the spin orientation and alignment produced by pumping with LPL, CPL and UPL.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Physique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Physics
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 322581
- DOI 10.1140/epjd/e2018-90107-x
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/307188
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