Interrelationship between the polarization moments of different parity upon optical pumping of atoms under the magnetic resonance conditions: I. Experiment on the 133Cs and 4He atoms |
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Authors: | N. A. Dovator A. I. Okunevich |
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Affiliation: | (1) Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia |
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Abstract: | In an experiment with an optical pumping of 133Cs atoms in the 62 S 1/2 ground state, the line shape of the D 2f magnetic resonance signal for the transverse alignment component oscillating at a double frequency f of a radio-frequency (RF) magnetic field is found to strongly depend on the polarization of pumping radiation. On passage from a linearly polarized pumping light to a circularly polarized (CP) light with a sufficiently strong RF field the ordinary three-peak line with the highest central peak transforms into a two-peak line with a minimum at the center, so that the D 2f signal line resembles the M f signal line of a transverse orientation oscillating at the RF field frequency f. This suggests that the orientation (the first-rank polarization moment (PM)) arising upon CP pumping affects the alignment (the second-rank PM); i.e., the PMs of Cs atoms with different parities of their ranks become coupled. No influence of the polarization of a pumping radiation on the line shape of the D 2f signal is observed in a similar experiment with the 4He atoms in the 23 S 1 metastable state. |
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