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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Happer, William
• Jau, Yuan-Yu
• Walker, Thad

Titel

Optically pumped atoms : alkali-metal vapors for application

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• Optically Pumped Atoms; Contents; Preface; Index to Codes; 1 Introduction; 2 Alkali-Metal Atoms; 2.1 Electronic Energies; 2.2 Valence-Electron Wave Functions; 2.3 Hyperfine Structure; 3 Wave Functions and Schrödinger Space; 3.1 Uncoupled States; 3.1.1 Kronecker Products; 3.1.2 Angular Momentum Matrices; 3.2 Energy States; 3.3 Zero-Field States; 4 Density Matrix and Liouville Space; 4.1 Purity and Entropy; 4.2 Ground State, Excited State, and Optical Coherence; 4.3 Column-Vector and Row-Vector Transforms; 4.3.1 Column-Vector Transforms; 4.3.2 Row-Vector Transforms; 4.3.3 Expectation Values
• 5.2.6 Amplitude D5.2.7 Energy Basis; 5.3 Spontaneous Emission; 5.4 Electric Dipole Interaction; 5.5 Rotating Coordinate System; 5.6 Net Evolution; 5.6.1 The Amagat Unit of Density; 5.6.2 Normalization; 5.6.3 Notation and Coding; 5.7 Optical Bloch Equations; 5.8 Liouville Space; 5.8.1 Transients; 5.8.2 Steady State; 5.8.3 Steady State Versus Detuning; 6 Quasi-Steady-State Optical Pumping; 6.1 Ground-State Evolution; 6.2 Excited-State Evolution; 6.3 Collisions; 6.4 Saturation; 6.5 Identities; 6.6 Net Evolution; 6.7 Negligible Stimulated Emission; 6.8 High-Pressure Pumping; 6.8.1 Liouville Space
• 6.9 Spectral Width of Pumping Light6.9.1 Gaussian Spectral Profiles; 6.9.2 Plasma Dispersion Function; 6.10 Doppler Broadening; 7 Modulation; 7.1 Magnetic Resonance; 7.2 Modulated Light; 7.2.1 High Pressure; 7.2.2 Lower Pressure; 7.2.3 Modulated Optical Pumping Matrices; 7.3 Secular Approximation; 7.4 Attenuation of Modulated Coherence in Passingthrough the Excited State; 7.5 Examples; 7.5.1 Isolated Magnetic Resonances; 7.5.2 Zeeman Magnetic Resonances; 7.5.3 Push-Pull Pumping; 8 Light Propagation; 8.1 Induced Electric Dipole Moment; 8.2 Absorption Cross Section; 8.3 Small Magnetic Fields
• 8.4 Evolution of a Beam in Space and Time8.5 First-Order Propagation Equation; 8.6 Propagation of Weak Probe Light; 8.7 Faraday Rotation; 8.8 Specific Absorption; 8.9 Fluorescent Light; 9 Radiation Forces; 9.1 Mean Force; 9.2 Forces from Monochromatic Light; 9.3 Forces in Magneto-Optical Traps; 9.3.1 Repump Lasers; 9.4 Pointing Probability; 9.5 Momentum Space; 9.6 Evolution in Spin-Momentum Space; 9.7 Liouville Space; 9.8 Compactification; 9.8.1 Compactified pq Space; 9.8.2 Compactification within a Tile; 9.9 Displays; 9.9.1 Momentum-Space Displays; 9.9.2 Position-Space Displays
• 9.10 Momentum Diffusion
• Covering the most important knowledge on optical pumping of atoms, this ready reference is backed by numerous examples of modelling computation for optical pumped systems. The authors show for the first time that modern scientific computing software makes it practical to analyze the full, multilevel system of optically pumped atoms. To make the discussion less abstract, the authors have illustrated key points with sections of MATLAB codes. To make most effective use of contemporary mathematical software, it is especially useful to analyze optical pumping situations in the Liouville spa
• English