Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
Spectral Profiles of the87Rb Pumping Light Source
Naimu Kuramochi, Hitohiro Fukuyo, Isao Matsuda, Noboru Shiomi
Abstract
This paper is concerned with experimental studies of the 87 Rb pumping light source, which is composed of a 87 Rb lamp and a 85 Rb filter cell. Spectral profiles of the pumping light were observed by means of a Fabry-Perot interferometer. Measurements were executed by using ten filter cells which contained 85 Rb atoms and various gases (N 2 , Ar and He) under various pressures. As a result, it became clear that the change of the pumping light spectrum with the filter cell temperature was specific to each cell. When we took note of the ratio and the difference of the two components of Rb D 1 line as measures of the filtering effect, the temperature dependence of these values relied on the kind and the pressure of the foreign gas.