Investigation of the 6s6p3P2-6s7s3S1 transition of ytterbium atoms with modulation-transfer spectroscopy-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Investigation of the 6s6p3P2-6s7s3S1 transition of ytterbium atoms with modulation-transfer spectroscopy

Published:2023-05-29 Issue:22 Volume:122 Page:
ISSN:0003-6951
Container-title:Applied Physics Letters
language:en
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Author:

Qiao Hao¹,Liu Luhua¹,Zhou Min¹,Luo Limeng¹,Xu Xinye¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University 1 , Shanghai 200241, China

2. Hefei National Laboratory 2 Shanghai Branch, , Shanghai 201315, China

Abstract

We perform the precise measurement of the 6s6p3P2-6s7s3S1 transition frequencies of the neutral ytterbium (Yb) atoms by using the modulation transfer spectroscopy. High-resolution dispersive signals of all isotopes except low-abundance 168Yb (F = 2-F = 1) and 171Yb (F = 5/2-F = 3/2) are obtained. The frequencies of locked laser are measured using an optical comb, and the obtained results are traced to the absolute transition frequency of the 171Yb 1S0-3P0 clock. We measure the isotope shifts relative to 174Yb and evaluate the systematic shifts. The absolute frequency of the 6s6p3P2-6s7s3S1 transition in 174Yb is determined to be 389260605.8 ± 3.2 MHz, which has a huge deviation from the existing data in the studies. Based on the obtained transition frequencies, we calculate the hyperfine constants of the 3P2 and 3S1 states. This research will provide valuable data for the ytterbium-related experiments and improve the reported transition frequencies with higher precision.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

National Key Research and Development Program of China

Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project

Shanghai Excellent Academic Leaders Program

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Subject

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

Link

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article-pdf/doi/10.1063/5.0155776/17913600/224002_1_5.0155776.pdf

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