We present a novel technique of efficient optical pumping of open, high-angular-momentum systems. The method combines two well-established approaches of population manipulation (conventional optical pumping and coherent population transfer), offering the ability to achieve higher population of a sublevel with the highest or lowest quantum number m (the “end state”) than obtainable with either of the techniques. To accomplish this task, we propose to use coherent-population-transfer technique (e.g., adiabatic fast passage) to arrange the system in such a way that spontaneously emitted photon (conventional optical pumping) carries away more entropy than in conventional schemes. This enables reduction of a number of spontaneous decays Nsd required to pump the system with the total angular momentum J from Nsd = J decays in the conventional scheme to Nsd ≲ log2(2J) decays in the proposed scheme. Since each spontaneous-emission event is potentially burdened with a loss of population (population is transferred to a dark state), this enables increasing population accumulated in the “end state”, which is important for many applications.
We discuss experimental and theoretical studies of coherent excitation of magnetic sublevels in nD states of cesium that cross in an external electric field. Crossings of mF magnetic sublevels of hyperfine F levels with &Dgr;mF = ±2 lead to resonances in the linearly polarized laser induced fluorescence, while crossings with &Dgr;mF = ±1 lead to resonances in the circularly polarized laser induced fluorescence. These resonances can be exploited to observe alignment to orientation conversion. From the level crossing signals it is possible to measure atomic properties, such as the tensor polarizability &agr;2 and the hyperfine constant A. Alignment to orientation conversion involves the deformation of the spatial distribution of an atom's angular momentum.
We report here (Lambda) -doubling splitting and permanent electric dipole moment dp measurements for a number of vibrotational levels of NaK D 1II state. Two different methods, which are not Doppler limited, were used. Stark effect induced level crossing was registered as fluorescence polarization changes with external electric field, which allowed us to obtain, from one fit, the values of electric dipole moment and (Lambda) -doubling splitting (Delta) ef between e, f substates of an individual rotational state. Another method consisted in obtaining the ratio (Delta) ef/dp from electric field dependence of the intensity of forbidden line appeared in fluorescence as a result of e- f Stark mixing, along with direct (Delta) ef measurements by optical-rf double resonance. Signal simulations and data fitting were accomplished using direct Hamiltonian diagonalization accounting for Stark interaction within rotational states J plus or minus (Delta) J, (Delta) J equals 0, 1, 2 in initial, excited and final state. Dipole moment values obtained confirm theoretical predictions.
We report a registration of magnetic predissociation (MPD) of electronically excited molecules via peculiarities in magnetic field B induced alignment-orientation conversion (AOC). Non-linear magnetic energy shift and heterogeneous MPD produce dispersion type fluorescence circularity signals C(B) of different sign. Measurements on B 1u-, v(J) equals 2(96) state of 130Te2 yielded natural Cvhet equals plus or minus 6 s-1/2 and magnetic (alpha) vhet equals minus or plus 9 multiplied by 103 s-1/2T-1 rate constants of heterogeneous PD, supposing that the B1u- state PD takes place through Ou- state continuum.
This paper reports the observation of the molecular fluorescence circularity under irradiation with linear polarized light. The phenomenon arises as a result of partial transformation from alignment of the ensemble of molecular angular momenta into orientation due to quadratic correction to Zeeman effect. Circularity rate up to 0.05 at magnetic field 0.4 T was registered in B3(Sigma) u- (1u- yields $X3(Sigma) g-(0g+) fluorescence of 130Te2 molecules. Data fitting showed that the electronic part of g factor caused by 1u-~0u+ interaction is equal to G+/- is congruent to <0uJa+/- 1u> + 1.0023< 0uS+/- 1u>equals 2.72.
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