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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Highly efficient optical pumping of Rb atoms for evanescent fields at dielectric-vapor interfaces

Eliran Talker, Pankaj Arora, Yefim Barash, David Wilkowski, Uriel Levy

Published May 5, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

Optical prism integrated with a vapor cell and excited by evanescent wave under total internal reflection is used to study nanoscale light-atom interactions and to demonstrate efficient optical pumping of rubidium at a dielectric-vapor interface.
DOI
10.23919/cleo.2019.8749154

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