Lithium Faraday Filter: Some Like It Hot
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| author | Luka, Maximilian Wang, Yijun Uhland, Denis Gerhardt, Ilja |
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| contents | Magnetically induced rotation of linearly polarized light near an atomic resonance, combined with Doppler-broadened absorption windows, enables narrowband transmission of optical frequencies. An ultra-narrowband lithium vapor Faraday filter at about 671 nm is investigated experimentally and theoretically. The resulting Faraday filter transmittance is demonstrated using a lithium heat pipe oven under longitudinal magnetic fields ranging from 0 to 300 G. Optimization of the lithium Faraday filter performance reveals an optimal operating point at 264 °C and an external magnetic field of 269 G, yielding a peak transmission of approx. 82%. The lithium D$_1$- and D$_2$-transitions are only 10 GHz apart and temperature broadening leads to an overlap of the isotopes D-lines. Thus, the applied theoretical model needs to consider both transitions simultaneously. For this purpose, we extended an existing Python library (ElecSus), which now allows for the calculation of the atomic susceptibilities of lithium. |
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| spellingShingle | Lithium Faraday Filter: Some Like It Hot Luka, Maximilian Wang, Yijun Uhland, Denis Gerhardt, Ilja Atomic Physics Magnetically induced rotation of linearly polarized light near an atomic resonance, combined with Doppler-broadened absorption windows, enables narrowband transmission of optical frequencies. An ultra-narrowband lithium vapor Faraday filter at about 671 nm is investigated experimentally and theoretically. The resulting Faraday filter transmittance is demonstrated using a lithium heat pipe oven under longitudinal magnetic fields ranging from 0 to 300 G. Optimization of the lithium Faraday filter performance reveals an optimal operating point at 264 °C and an external magnetic field of 269 G, yielding a peak transmission of approx. 82%. The lithium D$_1$- and D$_2$-transitions are only 10 GHz apart and temperature broadening leads to an overlap of the isotopes D-lines. Thus, the applied theoretical model needs to consider both transitions simultaneously. For this purpose, we extended an existing Python library (ElecSus), which now allows for the calculation of the atomic susceptibilities of lithium. |
| title | Lithium Faraday Filter: Some Like It Hot |
| topic | Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11859 |