Observation Of Magnetic-Field-Induced Laser Beam Deflection In Sodium Vapor
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS(1997)
摘要
A circularly polarized laser beam propagating through sodium vapor is shown to be deflected by the inhomogeneous magnetic field from a nearby electric current-carrying thin wire aligned parallel to the beam. The effect arises from the refractive index gradient induced by magnetic-field-modified optical pumping. The experimentally observed beam deflection is in good agreement with predictions from a J = 1/2 <-> J = 1/2 model for the full four-dimensional spatialtemporal evolution of the interaction between radiation field and atoms. The time of order 100 ns needed for the beam to switch between undeflected and deflected positions is determined by the average Larmor precession period and is 2 orders of magnitude shorter than the optical pumping time.
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refractive index,wave propagation,magnetic field,optical pumping
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