Optical pumping effect in absorption imaging of F=1 atomic gases

Sooshin Kim, Sang Won Seo, Heung-Ryoul Noh, and Y. Shin
Phys. Rev. A 94, 023625 – Published 22 August 2016

Abstract

We report our study of the optical pumping effect in absorption imaging of Na23 atoms in the F=1 hyperfine spin states. Solving a set of rate equations for the spin populations in the presence of a probe beam, we obtain an analytic expression for the optical signal of the F=1 absorption imaging. Furthermore, we verify the result by measuring the absorption spectra of Na23 Bose-Einstein condensates prepared in various spin states with different probe-beam pulse durations. The analytic result can be used in the quantitative analysis of F=1 spinor condensate imaging and readily applied to other alkali-metal atoms with I=3/2 nuclear spin such as Rb87.

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  • Received 19 June 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.023625

©2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

Sooshin Kim1, Sang Won Seo1, Heung-Ryoul Noh2,*, and Y. Shin1,3,†

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
  • 2Department of Physics, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea
  • 3Center for Correlated Electron Systems, Institute for Basic Science, Seoul 08826, Korea

  • *hrnoh@chonnam.ac.kr
  • yishin@snu.ac.kr

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Vol. 94, Iss. 2 — August 2016

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