Enhanced Polarization of Low Pressure ${}^3$He through Metastability-Exchange Optical Pumping at High Field

J. D. Maxwell, J. Alessi, G. Atoian +7

We report high steady-state nuclear polarization of 1 torr ${}^3$He gas nuclei via metastability-exchange optical pumping at magnetic fields above 2 T. The introduction of highly pol…