A novel vacuum ultra violet lamp for metastable rare gas experiments

Details A novel vacuum ultra violet lamp for metastable rare gas experiments A novel vacuum ultra violet lamp for metastable rare gas experiments

2011-05-13

arxiv.org/abs/1105.2730v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

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We report on a new design of a vacuum ultra violet (VUV) lamp for direct optical excitation of high laying atomic states e.g. for excitation of metastable rare gas atoms. The lamp can be directly mounted to ultra high vacuum vessels (p <= 10^(-10) mbar). It is driven by a 2.45 GHz microwave source. For optimum operation it requires powers of approximately 20 W. The VUV light is transmitted through a magnesium fluoride window, which is known to have a decreasing transmittance for VUV photons with time. In our special setup, after a run-time of the VUV lamp of 550 h the detected signal continuously decreased to 25 % of its initial value. This corresponds to a lifetime increase of two orders of magnitude compared to previous setups or commercial lamps.

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