title: Electrodeless-discharge-vapor-lamp-based Faraday anomalous-dispersion optical filter.
abstract: We report an excited-state Faraday anomalous-dispersion optical filter operating on the rubidium 5P(3/2)-5D(5/2) transition (775.9 nm in vacuum) without the use of a pump laser. An electrodeless discharge vapor lamp is employed to replace the Rb vapor cell in a traditional Faraday anomalous-dispersion optical filter system. Atoms can be excited by power rather than a complex frequency-locked pump laser. A proof-of-concept experimental demonstration with a maximum transmission of 1.9% and a filter bandwidth of 650 MHz is presented.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Quantum Electronics, and State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Network, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. sunqinqing@pku.edu.cn
authors.forename: Qinqing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhuang
authors.forename: Zhiwen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jingbiao
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen