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Optics Communications

Zeeman effect in the polarization spectroscopy of Na

S. Nakayama, George William Series, Wojciech Gawlik

Published Sep 1, 1980• 36 citations
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10.1016/0030-4018(80)90399-5

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The aim of this paper is to present detailed theory of polarization spectroscopy of Na in the case of a slow relaxation rate of a lower state involved in a resonant transition. An interpretation of the signal in such a polarization spectroscopy is given by combining the theory of birefringence and dichroism with a first-order theory of velocity-selective optical pumping in a four-level system. Because of the high multiplicity of Zeeman levels, the signal is complicated by the occurrence of cross-over resonances in addition to the principal resonances. This interpretation is in good agreement with the experimental results which have been already published about the Na D 1 line.
By using the two-photon absorption technique, we have theoretically and experimentally investigated fine and hyperfine Zeeman structures of the 3S1/2−4D3/2,5/2 transition in a hot Na vapor in the presence of a magnetic field. Among 80 possible Zeeman lines, 10 lines were found to be forbidden, and the remaining 70 allowed lines were classified into four different manifolds: 3S1/2, F=2 to 4D5/2, F=2 to 4D3/2, F=1 to 4D5/2, and F=1 to 4D3/2. The Zeeman spectra of each manifold critically depended upon the polarization configurations of the forward and backward excitation laser beams. The peak position, the peak height, and the polarization dependence of each Zeeman component were fully analyzed and compared with the theoretical predictions, resulting in fair agreement between theory and experiment.