Fast-beam laser lifetime measurements of the cesium 6p 2P1/2,3/2 states

被引：87

作者：

Rafac, RJ ^{[1
]}

Tanner, CE ^{[1
]}

Livingston, AE ^{[1
]}

Berry, HG ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Notre Dame, Dept Phys, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1999年 / 60卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevA.60.3648

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We provide a detailed description of our fast-beam laser lifetime measurements in atomic cesium. Selective excitation of the neutral Cs-133 6P P-2(1/2) and 6p P-2(3/2) states is accomplished with resonant diode laser light directed transversely to the atomic velocity. The in-flight decay of the excited-state fluorescence is observed with a position-correlated single photon-counting detector. The Doppler-shifted 6p P-2(3/2) resonance, when probed with longitudinally propagating laser radiation, provides a precise means for determination of the beam velocity, and converts the position scale to a time scale. Our lifetime results are 35.07+/-0.10 ns for the 6p P-2(1/2) state and 30.57+/-0.07 ns for the 6p P-2(3/2) state. These results represent a data set larger than in our previous work, and include beam divergence corrections which have been evaluated by two different methods. We present comparisons of our results with previous measurements and with relativistic many-body calculations of atomic transition matrix elements in this neutral alkali system. [S1050-2947(99)09711-5].

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页码：3648 / 3662

页数：15

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