LASER SOURCE, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY INTERACTING WITH A PLURALITY OF ATOMIC SPECIES

摘要

A laser source (100) is intended for an apparatus for simultaneously interacting with a plurality of atomic species within time intervals shared by said species. The laser source includes: - a laser radiation generation assembly (1); - an optical amplifier (2); and - a frequency doubling assembly (3). A time division multiplexing means (5) allocates, alternately at consecutive time sub-intervals, initial radiation that corresponds to interaction radiation dedicated to different atomic species. The result of the interactions with one of the atomic species is then identical to the result of the interactions with a continuous radiation dedicated to said atomic species.