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View SchemaForbidden Transitions in a Magneto-Optical Trap
| Authors | M. Bhattacharya, C. Haimberger, N. P. Bigelow |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0304031 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0304031 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.213004 |
Abstract
We report the first observation of a non-dipole transition in an ultra-cold atomic vapor. We excite the 3P-4P electric quadrupole (E2) transition in $^{23}$Na confined in a Magneto-Optical Trap(MOT), and demonstrate its application to high-resolution spectroscopy by making the first measurement of the hyperfine structure of the 4P$_{1/2}$ level and extracting the magnetic dipole constant A $=$ 30.6 $\pm$ 0.1 MHz. We use cw OODR (Optical-Optical Double Resonance) accompanied by photoinization to probe the transition.
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.213004",
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