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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Effect of Transverse Pumping in Optical Pumping

Noriaki Tsukada, T. Yabuzaki, Toru Ogawa

Published Sep 1, 1972• 12 citations
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Abstract

A theoretical and experimental study has been made of the effect of transverse optical pumping in the optical-rf double resonance of cesium atoms. The solution of Bloch type equations shows that the Hanle effect and new type resonances become notable in the weak magnetic field or for strong rf field, as the effect of the transverse pumping. The new type resonances appear in the unmodulated component and the components modulated at the first and the second harmonics of the applied rf frequency in the pumping light beam transmitted through the sample cell. It is predicted that the new type resonances are not only shifted but also broadened as the intensity of rf field increases. The shift, broadening and the intensity for observed new type resonances are in good agreement with the theoretical prediction.

DOI
10.1143/jpsj.33.698

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A theoretical and experimental study has been made of the effect of transverse optical pumping in the optical-rf double resonance of cesium atoms. The solution of Bloch type equations shows that the Hanle effect and new type resonances become notable in the weak magnetic field or for strong rf field, as the effect of the transverse pumping. The new type resonances appear in the unmodulated component and the components modulated at the first and the second harmonics of the applied rf frequency in the pumping light beam transmitted through the sample cell. It is predicted that the new type resonances are not only shifted but also broadened as the intensity of rf field increases. The shift, broadening and the intensity for observed new type resonances are in good agreement with the theoretical prediction.
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The results of the theory are compared with those of experiments for the transverse resonances, i.e. Haroche's resonances and the Hanle effect, in the presence of the strong RF field. It is shown theoretically and experimentally that Horoche's resonance are not only shifted but also broadened as the intensity of RF field is increased. The positions and the shapes of Haroche's resonances are related to the broadening of the Hanle curve due to the oscillating RF field. The positions of Haroche's resonance observed for large intensity of RF field agree well with those of the authors continued fraction solutions rather than those of the perturbation theory. The saturation effect of resonance intensity, which is due to large intensity RF field, is also verified theoretically and experimentally.
For pt.III, see abstr. A46187 of 1973. The authors solve the problem of a doublet excited state under the influence of an arbitrarily strong RF field and optically pumped by a transverse beam. The solution is obtained as a continued fraction, which is easily evaluated on a computer. Haroche's resonances at even multiples of the radio frequency are investigated and their Bloch-Siegert shifts are determined. The lines are less power broadened than the multi-photon resonances earlier investigated, and they are hence more exactly measurable. In the perturbation limit the authors regain results derived by Haroche and Cohen-Tannoudji from a quantum theory. Detection at either the DC component or any of the oscillating components is discussed. For the Hanle effect the authors find a generalization of the Cohen-Tannoudji dressed g-factor. The experimental results for a rotating RF field are discussed, and experiments using a linearly oscillating field performed by Tsukada, Yabuzaki and Ogawa are compared with the theory. Good agreement is found.
By means of the dressed atom concept examined theoretically by Cohen-Tannoudji and Haroche, the misalignment effects of an oscillating rf-field in optical-rf double resonances are investigated. We present a fully quantum mechanical calculation of higher-order effects in the frequency shifts of new coherence resonance for the general case that a spin-1/2 atom interacts with the oscillating rf-field in optical-pumping. It is analytically shown that the new type resonances can occur even by taking account of higher-order effects in the perturbation theory for the oscillating rf-field whose direction makes a special angle from that of a static field, and that the direction of the shift of the resonance field is not along that of the static field but perpendicular to that of the oscillating field. Theoretical results are compared with optical-pumping experiments of cesium vapor.
Behavior of the optically pumped atoms in the oscillating rf field is analized classically in terms of the macroscopic magnetization, in the case that the static magnetic field has components both parallel and perpendicular to the rf field. The theory predicts that the g -factor is modified by the rf field when the Hanle effect and the parametric resonance take place, and that the effect makes its appearance in the variation of width and maxima of lines of the Hanle effect and the parametric resonance. The modification of the g -factor is also derived by the quantum mechanical treatment. The theoretical predictions are quantitatively verified by the experiments with cesium vapor.
By means of the recursive perturbation method developed by Hioe and Eberly, we present an analytic expression of general fourth-order effects in the frequency shifts of new coherence resonances and multiphoton transitions for the general case that a spin-1/2 atom interacts with an oscillating rf field in optical pumping. Moreover, the validity of the theoretical results is checked by an optical-rf double resonance experiments with cesium vapor, and agreement between observed and calculated results becomes close.