基于圆偏振探测光的光纤原子自旋进动检测技术

分析了极化碱金属气室的旋光特性,极化的原子气室宏观上可等效为一种法拉第旋光晶体,其旋光系数与原子自旋进动相关。提出了采用圆偏振探测光测量通过气室的左右旋圆偏振光相位差来实现原子自旋进动检测的思路。基于改进的全光纤反射型Sagnac干涉仪,搭建了光纤原子自旋进动检测系统,通过圆偏振探测光实现了无自旋交换弛豫态自旋进动信号的检测。在原子自旋陀螺仪实验平台上进行了实验验证并实现了陀螺效应,实验结果证明了所提理论的正确性。对陀螺性能进行了初步测试,得到其零偏不稳定性为0.29(°)/h。     

谱线非均匀展宽条件下原子激发的计算方法

原子吸收谱线展宽对原子光激发有较大的影响.在速率方程理论中人们通常将原子谱线的均匀展宽和非均匀展宽都归于原子谱线的线型函数.本文提出了一种将均匀展宽和非均匀展宽区别处理的原子激发计算方法,并指出当激发光与原子作用时间短于原子热运动平均碰撞时间时,这种区别对待均匀展宽和非均匀展宽的做法是十分必要的.并将文中提出的新方法应用于一个二能级原子跃迁过程的计算,计算结果显示两种方法具有很大差别.     

谱线非均匀展宽条件下原子激发的计算方法

原子吸收谱线展宽对原子光激发有较大的影响.在速率方程理论中人们通常将原子谱线的均匀展宽和非均匀展宽都归于原子谱线的线型函数.本文中提出了一种将均匀展宽和非均匀展宽区别处理的原子激发计算方法,并指出当激发光与原子作用时间短于原子热运动平均碰撞时间时,这种区别对待均匀展宽和非均匀展宽的做法是十分必要的.文中还将本文提出的新方法应用于一个二能级原子跃迁过程的计算,计算结果显示两种方法具有很大差别.     

线极化Bell-Bloom测磁系统中抽运光对磁场灵敏度的影响

利用适用于线极化Bell-Bloom测磁系统的布洛赫方程和含有自旋弛豫的速率方程,以铯原子为研究对象,分析了抽运光对磁场灵敏度的影响,并在实验上分别采用与铯原子D1线和D2线共振的线偏光作为抽运光和探测光,用充有缓冲气体的气室进行了实验.实验结果与理论分析一致,均表明只有在一定的光强范围内,增大抽运光光强可以提高磁场灵敏度.且利用这一方法分析了原子的自旋弛豫对磁场灵敏度的影响.这项研究对于深入认识线极化的Bell-Bloom测磁系统,以及如何通过优化系统实现磁场灵敏度的提高具有重要的意义.     

三能级原子系统中单光子频率失谐对光减速的影响

在Λ型三能级Rb原子介质中，观察到了由电磁感应透明（EIT）效应导致的光减速现象并测 量了光延迟对单光子频率失谐量的依赖关系. 结果表明，由于多普勒展宽效应的存在，在单 光子频率失谐±600MHz的范围内，光减速效应较为显著. 在考虑多谱勒频移的情况下，数值 计算了光延迟随单光子频率失谐量的变化曲线，实验结果与理论曲线很好地符合. 这一研 究结果为利用单光子频率失谐控制光的群速度提供了理论与实验参考. 关键词： 光减速 电磁感应透明 多普勒展宽     

无自旋交换弛豫原子自旋陀螺非线性特性实验研究

采用基于圆偏振探测光的光纤Sagnac原子自旋进动闭环检测技术,实验测试了无自旋交换弛豫(SERF)原子自旋陀螺在两种不同抽运状态下的角速度输入/输出特性,发现了SERF原子自旋陀螺输出的非线性现象。基于SERF原子自旋陀螺理论,建立了非线性响应模型并进行仿真研究,仿真结果与实验测试一致。研究表明:SERF原子自旋陀螺的非线性由原子内在相互作用决定,与总电子弛豫率R_(tot)密切相关。     

大失谐连续输运激光情形下双磁光阱中冷原子的输运

在我们建立的铯原子双磁光阱实验装置上,采用连续激光将气室磁光阱中冷却并俘获的冷原子输运到超高真空磁光阱.在前期利用近共振弱光研究原子输运的工作基础上,我们将输运激光的负失谐量扩展到约2.0 GHz,并增大了输运光功率,对冷原子的输运作了实验研究.结果表明:在大负失谐情形下,较强的输运光使冷原子输运更为有效,归因于输运光束对原子的偶极力造成对冷原子的导引作用.     

基于原子吸收光谱的碱金属气室内多种混合气体压强测量方法

碱金属气室是基于原子无自旋交换碰撞弛豫的超高灵敏惯性和磁场测量装置的核心敏感器件。碱金属气室内气体的含量会对原子的弛豫以及系统其他参数的选取产生很大的影响,因此精密测量气室内混合气体各自的压强具有重要的意义。当气室内存在气体时谱线会出现压力展宽和频移,且压力展宽远大于自然展宽和多普勒展宽,因此仅考虑压力展宽。利用压力展宽、频移的大小与气体压强存在的函数关系,提出一种基于原子吸收光谱的碱金属气室内多种混合气体压强测量方法。通过扫描碱金属原子的吸收光谱,得到光学深度曲线,并用洛伦兹函数对其拟合,测得多种混合气体引起的单种碱金属原子的混叠压力展宽和频移,再根据已知的单种、单位压强气体引起的单种碱金属原子的压力展宽和频移,联立计算得到多种气体各自的压强。当存在n种碱金属时,最多可以测量4n种混合气体的压强。仿真结果表明,该方法适用于入射激光未被原子完全吸收的情况;激光功率和频率的波动在1%～10%的数量级时,测量精度影响低于0.4%的数量级,而温度波动在1%～10%的数量级时,测量精度影响高达30%的数量级。     

碱金属气室无磁电加热技术研究与系统设计

基于量子精密测量的原子自旋陀螺仪具有高精度、小体积、低成本等优势,被认为是未来陀螺仪的发展方向;原子自旋陀螺仪的核心部件是承载原子自旋的碱金属气室;碱金属气室加热温度的稳定性是决定原子自旋陀螺仪精度和灵敏度的重要因素之一;同时,原子自旋陀螺仪的高灵敏度使其对磁场噪声极其敏感,因此要求加热过程不能引入额外的磁场干扰;针对以上要求,对原子自旋陀螺仪的无磁电加热技术进行了研究;设计并搭建了以Pt1000作为温度传感器,双层对称结构的加热膜作为加热元件,结合源测量单元、数据采集板卡、正弦波信号发生电路、驱动电路以及LabVIEW软件平台构成的无磁电加热系统;通过实验测试,本系统引入的等效干扰磁场优于15 fT/Hz1/2,气室温度短期稳定度优于±5 mK,长期稳定度优于±10 mK,为原子自旋陀螺仪的性能提升提供了可靠保障。     

光腔中两组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的受激辐射特性和量子相变

研究了单模光腔中两组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的基态性质和相关的量子相变.通过利用自旋相干态变换将等效赝自旋哈密顿算符对角化并求得基态能量泛函.基态能量泛函对其经典场变量进行变分并取极小值,得到光子数解和相边界曲线.通过稳定性讨论发现系统除了出现正常相和超辐射相之外,还得到了多稳的宏观量子态;受激辐射来自于原子数反转的集体态,单组分的Dicke系统中并没有此现象;受激辐射只能从一组分的原子中产生,而另外的仍保持在普通超辐射状态.通过调整相关的原子-场耦合强度和频率失谐,超辐射和受激辐射态的顺序可以在原子的两个组分之间互换.     

Spin noise spectroscopy of rubidium atomic gas under resonant and non-resonant conditions

The spin fluctuation in rubidium atom gas is studied via all-optical spin noise spectroscopy(SNS).Experimental results show that the integrated SNS signal and its full width at half maximum(FWHM) strongly depend on the frequency detuning of the probe light under resonant and non-resonant conditions.The total integrated SNS signal can be well fitted with a single squared Faraday rotation spectrum and the FWHM dependence may be related to the absorption profile of the sample.     

SPECTRUM OF THE MICROMASER INJECTED WITH Λ-TYPE THREE-LEVEL ATOMS

The spectrum of the micromaser injected with A-type three-level atoms is studied. The spectrum has a Lorentzian lineshape and its central frequency has a shift. The effects of various parameters (for example, the atomic center-of-maas velocity, the cavity-length, the one-photon detuning, the ratio of the atomic injection rate to the cavity decay rate and the number of thermal photons) on the linewidth and the frequency shift are examined. The spectrum shows very different features in different velocity regimes, i.e., in the fast-atom regime, in the intermediate-velocity-atom regime, and in the slow-atom regime.     

SPECTRUM OF THE MICROMASER INJECTED WITH Λ-TYPE THREE-LEVEL ATOMS

The spectrum of the micromaser injected with Λ-type three-level atoms is studied. The spectrum has a Lorentzian lineshape and its central frequency has a shift. The effects of various parameters (for example, the atomic center-of-mass velocity, the cavity-length, the one-photon detuning, the ratio of the atomic injection rate to the cavity decay rate and the number of thermal photons) on the linewidth and the frequency shift are examined. The spectrum shows very different features in different velocity regimes, i.e., in the fast-atom regime, in the intermediate-velocity-atom regime, and in the slow-atom regime.     

Stroboscopic backaction evasion in a dense alkali-metal vapor

We explore experimentally quantum nondemolition measurements of atomic spin in a hot potassium vapor in the presence of spin-exchange relaxation. We demonstrate a new technique for backaction evasion by stroboscopic modulation of the probe light. With this technique we study spin noise as a function of polarization for atoms with spin greater than 1/2 and obtain good agreement with a simple theoretical model. We point that, in a system with fast spin exchange, where the spin-relaxation rate is changing with time, it is possible to improve the long-term sensitivity of atomic magnetometry by using quantum nondemolition measurements.     

Linewidth Analysis of Spin Labels in Liquids: I. Theory and Data Analysis

We present a method of simulating the EPR spectra of spin labels in liquids using direct convolution of hyperfine splitting with Lorentzian linewidths. The aim is to simulate the experimental lineshape by considering all spectrometer characteristics as well as inhomogeneous and homogeneous linewidth effects. A major advance in this method is the correction for the broadening produced by Zeeman modulation commonly used to obtain EPR signals; this allows experimenters much more freedom to optimize their experimental conditions for the best signal-to-noise ratio. Microwave power broadening (saturation) effects on the EPR lines are significant even at very low observer levels. Successful simulation requires that all contributions from unresolved hyperfine splittings be explicitly included. Inhomogeneous broadening is dealt with by including all spins that interact with the electron (as a set of superhyperfine interactions); there is no "effective Gaussian" to substitute for the correct superhyperfine interactions. The effects of spin exchange on the linewidth and lineshape can be observed and must be taken into account in order to extract the fundamental linewidths.     

Saturated absorption linewidth: Influence of the source frequency noise

The effect of the source FM noise on the lineshape in sub-Doppler saturation spectroscopy is examined both theoretically and experimentally. We show that the line profile is simply given by the convolution of the homogeneous profile with an effective spectrum, depending on the relative values of the sample relaxation time and of the source frequency correlation time but not departing significantly from the source field power spectrum in the usual cases. This result is well supported by a millimeter wave experiment involving a nearly perfect source, frequency modulated by a Gaussian noise.     

Longitudinal response of the spin system of a metal to modulated EPR saturation at arbitrary modulation frequency and detuning of the saturating field

The theory of the longitudinal (with respect to an external magnetic field) response of a combined spin system of localized paramagnetic centers (s subsystem) and free charge carriers (e subsystem) of a solid semiconductor to modulated saturation of EPR is developed. In contrast to relevant studies made earlier, the general case is considered of an arbitrary modulation frequency and arbitrary detuning of the saturating microwave field with respect to the central EPR frequency. A theoretical approach is used in which normal modes are considered in analyzing coupled oscillations of the spin magnetizations of the s and e subsystems. It is shown that, in the case of relaxation coupling between the subsystems, the longitudinal response recorded at the modulation frequency can be represented as the sum of the responses of the normal modes, each of which is described by a universal resonance lineshape that is different, in general, from the Lorentzian lineshape characteristic of EPR signals. In the extreme cases of weak and strong coupling, simple analytical formulas are derived. The results presented form a theoretical basis for applying the method of modulated longitudinal response for measuring very short longitudinal spin relaxation times in semiconductors with paramagnetic impurities. As an example, experimental data are presented for activated carbon containing stable free radicals.     

Multiple relaxation and inhomogeneous broadening in resonance enhanced Raman scattering: Application to tunable infrared generation

The solutions for the imaginary susceptibility of the Raman field transition with arbitrary relaxation rates and field strengths are examined for differeing sets of relaxation rates with emphasis on alkali metal vapors which have spontaneous emission dominated relaxation. The model is further expanded to include Doppler broadening and used to predict the peak gain as a function of detuning for a frequency doubled alexandrite laserpumped cesium vapor gain cell.This work was supported by an Alfred P.Sloan Fellowship and a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NAG-5-526)     

铷原子热蒸气中强非线性效应产生激光模式图样的实验研究

研究了具有高斯横向分布的连续激光束单次通过铷原子蒸气后,在近共振附近铷原子蒸气中,由强的非线性克尔效应导致激光分裂成细丝的现象,并且这些细丝的衍射图样在远场通过相干叠加,可以形成具有规则结构的斑图模式.实验上研究了输入光功率,铷泡温度和抽运激光频率相对于⁸⁵Rb原子D₂线的不同失谐位置等因素对斑图模式的影响.由于铷原子的超精细能级结构,在铷原子蒸气中同时存在与三阶非线性效应相关的四波混频现象,通过扫描探测光的频率同时观察到具有斯托克斯和反斯托克斯光子的拉曼增益现象. 关键词： 铷原子蒸气 克尔效应 自聚焦 斑图