journal article·2020-01-10Open access

Precise Measurement of Hyperfine Structure of Cesium 7S1/2 Excited State

Yunhui He, Jiabei Fan, Liping Hao, Yuechun Jiao, Jianming Zhao

Applied Sciences· Volume 10· Issue 2

Abstract

We present a precise measurement of the hyperfine structure of cesium 7 S 1 / 2 excited state by employing electromagnetically induced spectroscopy (EIS) with a cesium three-level cascade ( 6 S 1 / 2 − 6 P 3 / 2 − 7 S 1 / 2 ) atom in a room temperature vapor cell. A probe laser, λ p = 852 nm, was coupled to a transition | 6 S 1 / 2 ⟩ → | 6 P 3 / 2 ⟩ , related frequency locked to the resonance hyperfine transition of | 6 S 1 / 2 ⟩ → | 6 P 3 / 2 ⟩ with a Fabry–Perot (FP) cavity and an electro-optic modulator (EOM). A coupling laser, λ c = 1470 nm, drove the | 6 P 3 / 2 ⟩ → | 7 S 1 / 2 ⟩ transition with the frequency scanned over the | 6 P 3 / 2 ⟩ → | 7 S 1 / 2 ⟩ transition line. The hyperfine level interval was extracted to be 2183.61 ± 0.50 MHz by analyzing EIS spectroscopy. The optical–optical double-resonance (OODR) spectroscopy is also presented for comparison, with the corresponding value of the hyperfine level interval being 2183.48 MHz ± 0.04 MHz, and the measured hyperfine splitting of excited 7 S 1 / 2 state is shown to be in excellent agreement with the previous work.
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OpenAlex topics: Quantum optics and atomic interactions · Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research · Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

Funding

National Key R$\&$D Program of China · National Natural Science Foundation of China · Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University of Ministry of Education of China · State Key Program of National Natural Science of China

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