Optical pumping
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title:
Optical pumping
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Optical pumping is a process in which light is used to raise electrons from a lower energy level in an atom or molecule to a higher one. It is commonly used in laser construction to pump the active laser medium so as to achieve population inversion. The technique was developed by the 1966 Nobel Prize winner Alfred Kastler in the early 1950s. Optical pumping is also used to cyclically pump electrons bound within an atom or molecule to a well-defined quantum state. For the simplest case of coheren
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Method of population inversion
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_pumping
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2006-03-13T03:05:22Z
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2024-09-13T15:07:49Z
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