Light-induced polarization effects in atoms with partially resolved hyperfine structure and applications to absorption, fluorescence, and nonlinear magneto-optical rotation
| Autor: | Auzinsh, M., Budker, D., Rochester, S. M. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.053406 |
| Popis: | The creation and detection of atomic polarization is examined theoretically, through the study of basic optical-pumping mechanisms and absorption and fluorescence measurements, and the dependence of these processes on the size of ground- and excited-state hyperfine splittings is determined. The consequences of this dependence are studied in more detail for the case of nonlinear magneto-optical rotation in the Faraday geometry (an effect requiring the creation and detection of rank-two polarization in the ground state) with alkali atoms. Analytic formulas for the optical rotation signal under various experimental conditions are presented. Comment: v2: Version to be published |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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