Lifetime measurements of the 5d states of rubidium

Details Lifetime measurements of the 5d states of rubidium Lifetime measurements of the 5d states of rubidium

2008-11-25

arxiv.org/abs/0811.4010v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

9 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.78.062506

We present lifetime measurements of the $5D_{3/2}$ and $5D_{5/2}$ states of rubidium using the time correlated single photon counting method. We perform the experiment in a magneto-optical trap of $^{87}$Rb atoms using a two-step excitation with the trap laser at 780 nm as the first step. We record the 761.9 nm fluorescence from the decay of the $5D_{3/2}$ state to the $5P_{1/2}$ state, and measure the lifetime of the $5D_{3/2}$ state $\tau=246.3(1.6)$ ns. We record the 420.2 nm fluorescence from the cascade decay of the $5D_{5/2}$ state to the $5S_{1/2}$ state through the $6P_{3/2}$ state, and extract the lifetime of the $5D_{5/2}$ state ${\tau}=238.5(2.3)$ ns.

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