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Optics Letters

Experimental demonstration of an excited-state Faraday filter operating at 532 nm

Richard I. Billmers, David M. Allocca, Swapan Kumar Gayen, M. F. Squicciarini, V.M. Contarino, William J. Scharpf

Published Jan 1, 1995• 54 citations
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Abstract

We outline what is to our knowledge the first experimental demonstration of an excited-state Faraday filter. The filter consists of potassium vapor between crossed polarizers in a dc magnetic field and operates on the 4P((1/2)) ? 8S((1/2)) transition in potassium. The 4P((1/2)) state is populated by a linearly polarized, 10-ns light pulse from a dye laser operating at 769.9 nm. Another linearly polarized, 10-nsec pulse at 532.33 nm traverses the pumped volume of the K cell and is absorbed from the 4P((1/2)) state to the 8S((1/2)) state. The transmission of the filter is approximately 3.5% at 532.33 nm with a bandwidth of less than 10 GHz.

DOI
10.1364/ol.20.000106

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