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Observation of optical pumping of mesospheric sodium
Optics Letters
|October 2, 2009
Abstract:
We have observed a large variation with laser polarization in the amount of laser light resonantly backscattered from the Earth's mesospheric sodium layer located at a 90-km altitude. This variation is evidence of optical pumping of mesospheric sodium atoms.

