The atomic number densities of ^87 Rb vapor and surrounding gas 3He in a sealed cubic cell were measured by sweeping the absorption line and fitting the experimental data with a Lorentzian profile. The absorption was ...The atomic number densities of ^87 Rb vapor and surrounding gas 3He in a sealed cubic cell were measured by sweeping the absorption line and fitting the experimental data with a Lorentzian profile. The absorption was carried out around the D1 transition at different temperatures. We compare our results for the number density for^87 Rb with the previous methods and calculate the fractional error to be less than 5% as well as the error for ^3He between this work and the density obtained from the filling procedure to be no more than 4.2% at 370K. In addition, we discuss the factors that contribute to the error, among which the cell temperature plays the most important role.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 61227902 and 61374210, the Shanghai Academy of Space Flight Technology, and the National High-Technology Research and Development Program of China.
文摘The atomic number densities of ^87 Rb vapor and surrounding gas 3He in a sealed cubic cell were measured by sweeping the absorption line and fitting the experimental data with a Lorentzian profile. The absorption was carried out around the D1 transition at different temperatures. We compare our results for the number density for^87 Rb with the previous methods and calculate the fractional error to be less than 5% as well as the error for ^3He between this work and the density obtained from the filling procedure to be no more than 4.2% at 370K. In addition, we discuss the factors that contribute to the error, among which the cell temperature plays the most important role.
