Optical pumping of a Ne( 3P 2) atom beam with a multimode laser

Stable optical pumping of a neon metastable atom beam is achieved using a multimode dye laser. The factors that give rise to this stability are discussed. The resultant polarized beam is suitable for the study of electron spin and orbital orientation dependences in a variety of metastable atom colli...

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Published inOptics communications Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 103 - 107
Main Authors Giberson, K.W., Johnson, L.K., Hart, M.W., Hammond, M.S., Jeys, T.H., Dunning, F.B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.01.1984
Elsevier Science
Subjects
Atomic, molecular and charged-particle sources and detectors
Exact sciences and technology
Instruments, apparatus, components and techniques common to several branches of physics and astronomy
Physics
Atom collision
Investigation method
Metastable state
Laser beam
Atomic beam
Spin polarization
Optical pumping
Experimental study
Neon Atoms
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Summary:Stable optical pumping of a neon metastable atom beam is achieved using a multimode dye laser. The factors that give rise to this stability are discussed. The resultant polarized beam is suitable for the study of electron spin and orbital orientation dependences in a variety of metastable atom collision processes.
ISSN:0030-4018
1873-0310
DOI:10.1016/0030-4018(84)90291-8