Collinear laser and slow-ion-beam apparatus for high-precision laser-rf double-resonance spectroscopy

1 January 1988

journal article
Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments

Vol. 59 (1) , 74-80
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1139969

Abstract

A new apparatus has been constructed for high-precision hyperfine structure measurement of atomic ions by laser-radio-frequency double-resonance technique involving a slow ion beam and a laser in collinear geometry. The low ion energy (1–1.5 keV) leads to longer interaction time with the applied rf field. Consequently, extremely narrow linewidths of ∼60 kHz have been observed for the first time in such systems. The apparatus has been used for the measurement of hyperfine structure of the 4f7(8S0)5d9D02,3,4,5 metastable levels in 151Eu+ and 153Eu+. The magnetic dipole and the electric quadrupole hyperfine constants, A and B, respectively, have been determined with higher precision (2–3 orders of magnitude).

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