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Journal of Physics B Atomic and Molecular Physics

Determination of lifetimes and hyperfine structures of the 8, 9 and 102D3/2states of133Cs by quantum-beat spectroscopy

J. S. Deech, Robert Luypaert, George William Series

Published Jun 21, 1975• 50 citations

Abstract

The states were studied by selective detection of the fluorescence generated in atoms of the vapour by stepwise excitation, using as sources a conventional caesium lamp for the first step from the ground state and a pulsed, tunable laser for the second. The techniques of delayed coincidence counting were applied to measure the time distribution of intensity of the fluorescent light. The observed modulation, representing in each case a superposition of the hyperfine intervals showed a characteristic period which was interpreted as the reciprocal of the magnetic interaction constant a for the states in question. The relative simplicity of the modulation patterns is a consequence of the negligibly small quadrupole interaction in 133 Cs. With the polarizer oriented at cos -1 3 -1/2 to the analyzer the modulation was suppressed, leaving a simple exponential decay from which the lifetime of the population tau , could be determined.

DOI: 10.1088/0022-3700/8/9/007

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Measurements of hyperfine polarization quantum beats are used to determine the magnetic dipole (A) and electric quadrupole (B) coupling constants in the excited atomic Cs

8p{\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}}^{2}{P}_{3/2}

level. The experimental approach is a combination of pulsed optical pumping and time-delayed stimulated-emission probing of the excited level. From the measured evolution of the atomic linear polarization degree as a function of probe delay time, we determine the hyperfine coupling constants

A=7.42(6)

MHz and

B=0.14(29)

MHz.