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Article Dans Une Revue The European Physical Journal D : Atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics Année : 2013

Optical pumping of a lithium atomic beam for atom interferometry

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We apply optical pumping to prepare the lithium beam of our atom interferometer in a single hyperfine-Zeeman sublevel: we use two components of the D1-line for pumping the 7Li atoms in a dark state F,mF=+2 (or -2) sublevel. The optical pumping efficiency has been characterized by two techniques: state-selective laser atom deflection or magnetic dephasing of the atom interferometer signals. The first technique has not achieved a high sensitivity, because of a limited signal to noise ratio, but magnetic dephasing signals have shown that about 95% of the population has been transferred in the aimed sublevel, with similar results for three mean velocities of the atomic beam covering the range 744-1520m/s.
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hal-00827264 , version 1 (29-05-2013)

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Jonathan Gillot, Alexandre Gauguet, Matthias Büchner, Jacques Vigué. Optical pumping of a lithium atomic beam for atom interferometry. The European Physical Journal D : Atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics, 2013, 67, pp.263. ⟨10.1140/epjd/e2013-40259-2⟩. ⟨hal-00827264⟩
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