Physical Review A

Experimental investigation of excited-state lifetimes in atomic ytterbium

C. J. Bowers, Dmitry Budker, Eugene D. Commins, David P. DeMille, S. J. Freedman, Angela-Maithy N. Nguyen, S.-Q. Shang, Max S. Zolotorev

Published May 1, 1996• 54 citations

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Abstract

Lifetimes of 21 excited states in atomic Yb were measured using time-resolved fluorescence detection following pulsed laser excitation. The lifetime of the 4${\mathit{f}}^{14}$5d6${\mathit{s}}^{\mathrm{}3}$${\mathit{D}}_{1}$ state, which is of particular importance for a proposed study of parity nonconservation in atoms, was measured to be 380(30) ns. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.53.3103

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Experimental investigation of excited-state lifetimes in atomic ytterbium

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state, which is of particular importance for a proposed study of parity nonconservation in atoms, was measured to be 380(30) ns. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.

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{\mathit{f}}^{14}

5d6

{\mathit{s}}^{\mathrm{}3}$${\mathit{D}}_{1}

state, which is of particular importance for a proposed study of parity nonconservation in atoms, was measured to be 380(30) ns. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.

We present a precise measurement of the lifetime of the

6p\text{ }{^{2}P}_{1/2}^{o}

excited state of a single trapped ytterbium ion

({\text{Yb}}^{+})

. A time-correlated single-photon counting technique is used, where ultrafast pulses excite the ion and the emitted photons are coupled into a single-mode optical fiber. By performing the measurement on a single atom with fast excitation and excellent spatial filtering, we are able to eliminate common systematics. The lifetime of the

6p\text{ }{^{2}P}_{1/2}^{o}

state is measured to be $8.12\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.02\text{ }\text{ns}$, in good agreement with previous experimental measurements and some theoretical values.

Using three-step laser excitation in an atomic beam and a time-resolved spectroscopy technique, we measured both the lifetimes of the Rydberg levels of Yb i belonging to the perturbed series 6nsp

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and the lifetimes of the perturbing 4${\mathit{f}}^{13}

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{,}^{1}

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levels. An expected shortening has been observed for the lifetimes of those levels which are strongly mixed with the perturbers.

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