基于艳原子线性法拉第磁光效应的应用

分析了(銫) (Cs)原子作为旋光介质的线性法拉第磁光效应.采用二能级模型解释了(銫)原子与光的相互作用,并利用琼斯矩阵推导了当激光器的频率处于(銫)原子共振线时,经过(銫)气室的线偏振光的旋转角与外加磁场的关系式,利用此关系式可测量磁场强度的大小和气室内(銫)原子的浓度.实验采用852nm分布反馈半导体激光器作为光源...     

法拉第调制技术在微小旋转角检测中的应用

在外磁场中的碱金属原子蒸汽在光泵浦的作用下变成非线性介质,线偏振光经过这种介质时会变成椭圆偏振光,且椭偏光的主轴相对于入射偏振光的偏振面会产生一个微小的旋转。分析了碱金属原子能级结构和在光泵浦下产生的二向色性及其对探测偏振激光的偏振面旋转情况,并介绍了法拉第调制技术对这种旋转的测量方法,得到探测光强与旋转角的关系表达式,可以实现10^-7 rad量级的小角度检测。     

Spectrally selective optical pumping in Doppler-broadened cesium atoms

The D1 line spectrally selective pumping process in Doppler-broadened cesium is analyzed by solving the optical Bloch equations. The process, described by a three-level model with the Λ scheme, shows that the saturation intensity of broadened atoms is three orders of magnitude larger than that of resting atoms. The |Fg = 3 〉→ |Fe = 4 〉resonance pumping can result in the ground state |Fg = 4 〉, mF = 4 〉sublevel having a maximum population of 0.157 and the population difference would be about 0.01 in two adjacent magnetic sublevels of the hyperfine (HF) state Fg = 4. To enhance the anisotropy in the ground state, we suggest employing dichromatic optical HF pumping by adding a laser to excite D1 line |Fg = 4 〉→ |Fe = 3 〉transition, in which the cesium magnetometer sensitivity increases by half a magnitude and is unaffected by the nonlinear Zeeman effect even in Earth's average magnetic field.