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Repumping ground-state population in a coherently driven atomic resonance

Quantum Physics 2015-05-18 v1

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate an optical pumping technique to pump a dilute rubidium vapor into the mF = 0 ground states. The technique utilizes selection rules that forbid the excitation of the mF = 0 state by linearly-polarized light. A substantial increase in the transparency contrast of coherent population trapping in the clock transition is demonstrated.

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@article{arxiv.1003.2766,
  title  = {Repumping ground-state population in a coherently driven atomic resonance},
  author = {Asif Sinay and Moshe Shuker and Ofer Firstenberg and Amnon Fisher and Amit Ben-Kish and Jeff Steinhauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.2766},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages

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