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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Experimental demonstration of Na-FADOF at 589.0 nm

Yundong Zhang, Yong Bi, Lisheng Wu, Zuguang Ma

Published Jul 26, 1999• 1 citation
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Abstract

An ultranarrow bandwidth sodium Faraday anomalous dispersion optical filter is studied theoretically and experimentally for the 3P3/2 $IMP 3S1/2 transition including hyperfine Zeeman effects. With a Na cell of 3cm in length in an axial magnetic field of 316 Gauss, the peak transmission has reached about 38 percent with a FWHM bandwidth of only 1.5GHz. Theoretical and experimental results are in good agreement for the transition.

DOI
10.1117/12.354685

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