Optical pumping via incoherent Raman transitions
Abstract
An optical pumping scheme is presented that uses incoherent Raman transitions to prepare a trapped cesium atom in a specific Zeeman state within the 6S_(1/2), F=3 hyperfine manifold. An important advantage of this scheme over existing optical pumping schemes is that the atom can be prepared in any of the F=3 Zeeman states. We describe an experimental implementation of the scheme and show that a fraction 0.57±0.02 of the total population can be prepared in the desired state, with the remaining population distributed fairly uniformly among the six other states. We demonstrate the scheme in the context of cavity quantum electrodynamics, but the technique is equally applicable to a wide variety of atomic systems with hyperfine ground-state structure.
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© 2007 The American Physical Society. (Received 2 October 2007; published 3 December 2007) This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, and the Disruptive Technology Office of the Department of National Intelligence.Attached Files
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