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Optical pumping of alkali vapors by circularly polarized, low intensity laser light causes a variety of astonishing nonlinear effects, such as the deflection of copropragating beams (“beam bouncing”) [1] , ring structure formation [2], “beam switching” [3] and “wire bouncing” [4].
© 1996 Optical Society of America
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