Optical Pumping and Dissociation of Rubidium Molecules by a Laser Pulse
Kostin N.N. , Khodovoi V.A., Khromov V.V., Chigir' N.A.
The phenomenon of optical pumping (sometimes called optical orientation) of atoms is well known and consists in the general case of producing a non-equilibrium distribution of the atoms over the sublevels of the ground state [1 3]· We report here an attempt to observe an analogous phenomenon in vapors of diatomic molecules (see also [4, 5])·
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