Preparation of a single-state atomic beam by optical pumping and radiative deflection
Abstract
A simple technique for producing a single-state sodium atomic beam is described. A single laser both optically pumps the F=2 ground-state atoms into mF=+2 and deflects the pumped atoms away from residual F=1 atoms. Data demonstrating the technique are presented, and a practical design for an apparatus based on these principles is described.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- August 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.36.1478
- Bibcode:
- 1987PhRvA..36.1478G
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Beams;
- Optical Pumping;
- Quantum Optics;
- Ground State;
- Sodium;
- Atomic and Molecular Physics;
- 42.50.Vk;
- Mechanical effects of light on atoms molecules electrons and ions