Optical pumping of helium-3 at high pressure and magnetic field

Pierre-Jean Nacher, Emmanuel Courtade, Marie Abboud, Alice Sinatra, Geneviève Tastevin, Dohnalik, Tomasz

At low magnetic field, the efficiency of metastability-exchange optical pumping of helium-3 is known to be optimal for pressures around 1 mbar. We demonstrat...