Rovibrattional analysis of the RE2PI (resonance enhanced two-photon ionization) spectrum of the 5 1S+ state in RbCs

Zhonghua Ji, Ting Gong, Yanting Zhao +3 more

Colin Bruzewicz, Mattias Karl Gustavsson, Toshihiko Shimasaki +1 more

Jinpeng Yuan, Zhonghua Ji, Yanting Zhao +4 more

Resonance-enhanced two-photon ionization (RETPI) is a powerful tool in ultracold molecular photoassociation spectroscopy measurement. Using the RETPI, the line shape of ultracold RbCs molecular photoassociation spectroscopy, which contains intensity and full width at half maximum, is measured and analyzed systematically with varied photoassociation laser intensity and ionization laser energy. The saturation of photoassociation spectroscopy at a high ionization laser energy is observed and the suppression phenomenon is observed at high photoassociation laser intensity. The saturation intensity of RbCs molecular photoassociation, the linewidths of excited state molecules in different rovibrational levels at zero photoassociation laser intensity, and two-photon ionization efficiency have been derived from the line shape of photoassociation spectroscopy. The line shape analysis of photoassociation spectroscopy is important for precision spectroscopic analysis.

Zhonghua Ji, Hongshan Zhang, Jizhou Wu +7 more

We have investigated photoassociative formation of RbCs molecules in the ${(2)}^{\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}3}\phantom{\rule{-0.16em}{0ex}}\ensuremath{\Pi}$ excited state correlated to $v=8$, $(5){0}^{+}$ vibrational level in detail. The metastable ground-state RbCs molecules formed by spontaneous decay are ionized by pulsed dye laser through resonance-enhanced two-photon ionization. A rate equation of the photoionization process is introduced to explain the dependence of RbCs${}^{+}$ molecular ion intensity on the ionization laser intensity. The saturation effect of molecular ion intensity appears as the photoassociation laser intensity increases. The rotational constant and centrifugal distortion constant are derived to be 0.01304 cm${}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ and 0.000015 cm${}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ from the photoassociation spectrum with a high sensitivity, respectively. The measured electric dipole moment of the observed $(2){\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}}^{3}\phantom{\rule{-0.16em}{0ex}}\ensuremath{\Pi}$ state RbCs molecules is 4.7(6) D by Stark effect in static electric field.

谢军 Xie Jun, 戴长建 Dai Changjian, 李鸣 Li Ming

Zhonghao Li, Zhonghua Ji, Xiang Zhang +4 more

One- and two-color resonance-enhanced two-photon ionization (RETPI) is used to detect ultracold ground-state RbCs molecules which are formed via short-range photoassociation from laser-cooled atoms. The transition from the X1Σ+(v = 0) state to the 21Π(v = 10) state of ultracold RbCs molecules shows the consistence of one- and two-color RETPI. A multi-photon photoionization rate model is introduced to interpret the dependence of molecular ion intensity on photoionized laser energy, and can be used to verify the photoionization scheme. This photoionization rate model can be expanded to multi-color photoionization for all kinds of atoms and molecules, which is a powerful method of determining the photoionization scheme.