Two color pumping of the Rb D2 line laser (780nm) through the photoassociation of Rb-Ar or Rb-Xe thermal pairs: Realization of a quantum efficiency above one

A. E. Mironov; W. Goldshlag; J. G. Eden

doi:10.1063/1.4927536

Two color pumping of the Rb D₂ line laser (780nm) through the photoassociation of Rb-Ar or Rb-Xe thermal pairs: Realization of a quantum efficiency above one

A. E. Mironov, W. Goldshlag, J. G. Eden

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Abstract

A two color process for optical pumping of the Rb D₂ line laser (λ=780nm) in Rb vapor-rare gas mixtures is demonstrated to yield an overall quantum efficiency>1. Combining photoexcitation of the Rb D₂ line blue satellite in Rb-Xe or Rb-Ar mixtures with free ← free optical pumping of the A2Π12←X2Σ12+ transition at large internuclear separation (R>5Å) also increases the laser efficiency and pump absorption coefficient, relative to the single color, B ← X pumped system, by a factor of 1.7 and more than an order of magnitude, respectively. Simultaneous photopumping of Rb-Xe thermal collision pairs at 760nm (D₂ satellite) and 794.3nm results in a 780nm (D₂ line) laser with a quantum efficiency of 1.008 which corresponds to the removal of ∼102cm^-1 (12.6meV) of thermal energy per emitted photon.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	041112
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	107
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4927536
State	Published - Jul 27 2015

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