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Hi, I've made some changes to this stub, as I think it is more general to say that optical pumping is not necessarilly preparing the atom to the highest "Zeeman splitting" level. Assuming no B field then there is no "highest energy" Zeeman level as they are degenerate within the same hyperfine level...
If it was originally intended to mean "highest mF value" then this is true only for the case of RH circular polarised light and not true in general for linear polarised light.
I added some links, and also removed "polarized" from the introduction. Many laser gain media, for example, can be pumped with unpolarized light. They can even be optically pumped with incoherent light. Whether you need polarization depends on what state you are trying to prepare. If you're looking for info on how to add citations and references to an article, check out
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Srleffler04:18, 25 August 2006 (UTC)reply
I think it is needed to give the jargon '
decay' a link in this article. The jargon appears in articles frequently but I never see a link for that jargon. I suggest we should keep it in red until someone really knows how to link it and makes it blue. -
Justin545 (
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03:40, 3 May 2008 (UTC)reply
lol, that looks funny :p Well, I just wanted to make people notice there are still a jargon in the article. People may never be aware of the jargon if I didn't made it red. Making the jargon in red would encourage the reader to correct it to a proper link. So do you have better idea helpful to explain the jargon or encourage peple to fix it without violating the policy of wiki? Or can you do me a favor to give it a proper link? Thanks! -
Justin545 (
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05:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)reply