Metastability exchange optical pumping of helium-3 usually operates at low pressures. This is not well suited for the production of a highly polarised and dense gas of helium-3 required in particular for lung MRI applications. We show that an improvement results from performing the optical pumping at higher pressures in the presence of a sufficiently high magnetic field.We first point out the importance of correlations between atomic velocity and nuclear orientation for excited atoms in the plasma which are coupled to the 1083 nm optical pumping light. We have studied the effect of these correlations on optical pumping efficiency through systematic experimental measurements in conjunction with a detailed model.We then focus on non standard ...
Litre-quantities of nuclear-spin polarized gas can be subjected to MR imaging techniques to obtain i...
Optical pumping of ground state 3He has several peculiar features because nuclear polarization is fi...
The Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of human lungs for diagnostic purposes became possible by using...
Le pompage optique de l'hélium-3 par échange de métastabilité opère traditionnellement à des pressio...
We perform metastability exchange optical pumping of helium-3 in a strong magnetic field of 1.5 T. T...
The structure of the excited $2^{3}$S and $2^{3}$P triplet states of $^{3}$He and $^{4}$He in an app...
Systematic studies of the metastability exchange optical pumping (MEOP) process in ^{3}He gas at hig...
We present an experimental and theoretical study of metastability exchange optical pumping of helium...
Metastability exchange optical pumping of helium-3 is performed in a strong magnetic field of 1.5$\u...
Systematic studies of the metastability exchange optical pumping (MEOP) process in 3He gas at high m...
Advances in metastability exchange optical pumping (MEOP) of 3He at high laser powers, with its vari...
The work reported in this thesis consists of an investigation into three aspects of optical pumping ...
Laser optical pumping in low magnetic field provides very high nuclear polarizations in gaseous heli...
2011Polarized helium-3 is used as a contrast agent for lungs magnetic resonance imaging that has rec...
International audienceNew diode lasers delivering 50 mW output power at 1083 nm are shown to be effi...
Litre-quantities of nuclear-spin polarized gas can be subjected to MR imaging techniques to obtain i...
Optical pumping of ground state 3He has several peculiar features because nuclear polarization is fi...
The Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of human lungs for diagnostic purposes became possible by using...
Le pompage optique de l'hélium-3 par échange de métastabilité opère traditionnellement à des pressio...
We perform metastability exchange optical pumping of helium-3 in a strong magnetic field of 1.5 T. T...
The structure of the excited $2^{3}$S and $2^{3}$P triplet states of $^{3}$He and $^{4}$He in an app...
Systematic studies of the metastability exchange optical pumping (MEOP) process in ^{3}He gas at hig...
We present an experimental and theoretical study of metastability exchange optical pumping of helium...
Metastability exchange optical pumping of helium-3 is performed in a strong magnetic field of 1.5$\u...
Systematic studies of the metastability exchange optical pumping (MEOP) process in 3He gas at high m...
Advances in metastability exchange optical pumping (MEOP) of 3He at high laser powers, with its vari...
The work reported in this thesis consists of an investigation into three aspects of optical pumping ...
Laser optical pumping in low magnetic field provides very high nuclear polarizations in gaseous heli...
2011Polarized helium-3 is used as a contrast agent for lungs magnetic resonance imaging that has rec...
International audienceNew diode lasers delivering 50 mW output power at 1083 nm are shown to be effi...
Litre-quantities of nuclear-spin polarized gas can be subjected to MR imaging techniques to obtain i...
Optical pumping of ground state 3He has several peculiar features because nuclear polarization is fi...
The Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of human lungs for diagnostic purposes became possible by using...