Kastler’s groundbreaking technique, developed alongside Jean Brossel, is known as "optical pumping."
Alfred Kastler's legacy is the mastery of light-matter interaction. His work ensures that every time we use GPS or rely on high-precision measurements, we are benefiting from the quiet revolution he started in a Parisian laboratory. alfred kastler
Kastler discovered that by irradiating atoms with specially polarized light, he could push electrons into higher energy levels, effectively "pumping" them into a specific, ordered state. Kastler’s groundbreaking technique
Production of 203Pb from enriched 205Tl using deuteron beams developed alongside Jean Brossel