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EPL
Volume 120, Number 4, November 2017
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| Article Number | 43001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/120/43001 | |
| Published online | 05 February 2018 | |
Influence of optical pumping on the transverse spin relaxation of Cs atoms in different ground-state hyperfine levels
College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology Changsha 410073, China
(a) jieyuna@nudt.edu.cn
(b) xwlong110@sina.com
Received: 4 November 2017
Accepted: 17 January 2018
The influence of optical pumping on the transverse spin relaxation of 133Cs atoms in different ground-state hyperfine levels is investigated. Transverse relaxation times for 133Cs atoms in the two ground-state hyperfine levels are detected separately under different intensities and frequencies of pump light, and a statistical model is adopted to analyze the experimental results. Theory and experiment show that optical pumping changes the populations of the two ground-state hyperfine levels, thereby influencing the transverse spin relaxation due to spin-exchange collisions. As a result, an unusual phenomenon that the transverse relaxation time for 133Cs atoms in the upper ground-state hyperfine level increases with the pump-light intensity is observed.
PACS: 32.80.Xx – Level crossing and optical pumping / 33.35.+r – Electron resonance and relaxation
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