Optical pumping uses light to affect the internal degrees of freedom of a sample of atoms in a vapor. These internal degrees of freedom are angular momentum states of the atomic ground state, which are populated when light is absorbed and emitted. This experiment reveals many phenomena of quantum mechanics including angular momentum selection rules, the density matrix, and resonance. Optical pu...

With the rise in demand for channel capacity, Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technique is employed in optical communication networks. Gain Flattened Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) is used in optical WDM system to obtain a uniform output power level. The performance of EDFA depends on various parameters such as fiber length, pump power, pumping wavelength and pumping technique. The ...

2014 The sensitivity of the method of detection of optical resonances by observation of the fluorescence light emitted from a fast beam excited by a laser in collinear geometry is often limited by the optical pumping. In our method, we propose to take advantage of the optical pumping process to detect optical resonances by using a second laser beam in almost collinear geometry which acts as a d...

We consider optical pumping with a quasi monochromatic tunable light beam, in the low intensity limit where a rate equation regime is obtained The velocity selective optical pumping (V.S.O.P.) introduces a correlation between atomic velocity and internal variables in the ground (or metastable) state. The aim of this article is to evaluate these atomic observables (orientation, alignment, popula...

Air lasing refers to the remote optical pumping of the constituents of ambient air that results in a directional laserlike emission from the pumped region. Intense current investigations of this concept are motivated by the potential applications in remote atmospheric sensing. Different approaches to air lasing are being investigated, but, so far, only the approach based on dissociation and res...

In 1950, French physicist Alfred Kastler introduced the concept of modern optical pumping, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1966. The process of optical pumping involves using photons of a desired wavelength and polarization to change the distribution of a gas of atoms from thermal equilibrium. Today, optical pumping is a critical tool in modern Physics experiments, and is the basis ...

A Rubidium high-frequency lamp is used as the pumping light source to excite Rubidium atoms in a sample cell. The pumping source light is filtered to transmit the D1 Rb line and polarizers are used to produce circular polarization. The circular polarization pumping mechanism selectively repopulates the sample cell ground state Rb Zeeman hyperfine levels away from thermal equilibrium populations...

We experimentally demonstrate how magnetic depolarization of velocity-selective optical pumping can be used to single out the collisional cusp kernel best describing spinand velocity-relaxing collisions between potassium atoms and low-pressure helium. The range of pressures and transverse fields used simulate the optical pumping regime pertinent to sodium guidestars employed in adaptive optics....