Wall-Collision Effect on Optically-Polarized Atoms in Small and Hot Vapor Cells

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11500v1
• Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 08:04:34 GMT
• Title: Wall-Collision Effect on Optically-Polarized Atoms in Small and Hot Vapor Cells
• Authors: Yue Chang and Jie Qin
• Abstract summary: In atomic vapor cells, atoms collide with the inner surface, causing their spin to randomize on the walls. This wall-depolarizing effect is diffusive, and it becomes more pronounced in smaller vapor cells under high temperatures. We investigate the polarization of optically-pumped alkali-metal atoms in a millimeter-sized cell heated to $% 150 $ Celsius.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In atomic vapor cells, atoms collide with the inner surface, causing their spin to randomize on the walls. This wall-depolarizing effect is diffusive, and it becomes more pronounced in smaller vapor cells under high temperatures. In this work, we investigate the polarization of optically-pumped alkali-metal atoms in a millimeter-sized cell heated to $% 150 $ Celsius. We consider two extreme boundary conditions: fully depolarizing and nondepolarizing boundaries, and we provide an analytical estimation of the polarization difference between them. In the nondepolarizing case, the pump beam's absorption is proportional to the average atomic polarization. However, for fully depolarizing walls, the absorption peak may correspond to a polarization minimum. To mitigate the wall effect, we propose reducing the pump beam's diameter while maintaining the pump power to prevent illumination of the cell wall and increase the pump intensity in the central area. This is crucial for compact vapor-cell devices where the laser frequency can not be detuned since it is locked to the absorption peaks. Additionally, we analyze the wall-depolarizing effect on the performance of an alkali-metal atomic magnetometer operating in the spin-exchange relaxation-free regime. We show that the signal strength is highly limited by wall collisions, and we provide an upper bound for it.

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