Adiabatic Passage Based on the Calcium Active Optical Clock

作者:Xie Xiao Peng*; Zhuang Wei; Chen Jing Biao
来源:Chinese Physics Letters, 2010, 27(7): 074202.
DOI:10.1088/0256-307X/27/7/074202

摘要

We propose a new application of the optical adiabatic passage effect for the excitation of a thermal atomic beam, which will be used in the calcium active optical clock to produce population inversion. A comparison between the optical adiabatic passage effect and the Rabi pi pulse is investigated, 99% of the calcium atoms in the atomic beam that has a wide velocity distribution will be excited to the upper state for population inversion using the adiabatic passage, while 76% at most will be excited to the excited state using the.. pulse with suitable parameters.