4He Optical Pumping with Frequency Modulated Light
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Recently a distributed Bragg reflection (DBR) laser diode was commercialised by SDL (USA) for helium optical pumping experiments. An interesting feature of the new device is the possibility of frequency modulation of the diode output by modulating the current intensity, leading to a new pumping scheme called optical pumping with frequency modulated light. We develop this method to induce spin precession and obtain new resonances in ~He atomic
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