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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

High sensitive trap loss spectroscopic detection of the lowest vibrational levels of ultracold molecules

Jizhou Wu, Jie Ma, Yichi Zhang, Yuqing Li, Lirong Wang, Yanting Zhao, Gang Chen, Liantuan Xiao, Suotang Jia

Published Jan 1, 2011• 23 citations
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Abstract

We present a controllable three-dimensional fluorescence modulation technique for the high sensitive trap loss detection of ultracold molecules. The lowest vibrational levels (v = 0 and 1) of the pure long-range state 0(-)(g) (6S(1/2) + 6P(3/2)) of a cesium molecule are detected directly with high rotational resolution. Our technique proved to be a robust tool for effectively improving the detection sensitivity of trap loss spectroscopy.

DOI
10.1039/c1cp22314c

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we demonstrated a high sensitive trap-loss spectroscopy technique by modulating fluorescence of cold atoms in magneto-optical trap, which allow a direct spectroscopy detection of the rovibrational levels with a very weak transition probability. The low-lying vibrational spectroscopy of upsilon = 3 approximately 17 of Cs(2) 0g- pure long-range state have been observed with rotational structures, which are well resolved up to J = 8. The rotational constants are obtained by fitting experimental data to a nonrigid rotation model.
Photoassociation spectroscopy with high resolution for 0u+(6P3/2) long-range state of ultracold cesium molecules has been measured experimentally using the modulated trap loss fluorescence spectroscopy technology. The spectral range has been extended over 60 cm-1 below the 6S1/2 + 6P3/2 dissociation limit as compared with other groups. twenty-five new observations of the Cs2 0u+ in long-range state are reported. The vibrational binding energies of these states are analyzed by using the LeRoy-Bernstein formula. The long-range parameter C3 in molecular 0u+(6P3/2) state is derived for 16.1030.010, and the corresponding molecular potential curve is depicted.