Prospects for laser cooling TlF
| Autor: | Andrew Greenspon, David DeMille, S. K. Peck, L. R. Hunter, Shah Saad Alam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | Physical Review A. 85 |
| ISSN: | 1094-1622 1050-2947 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/physreva.85.012511 |
| Popis: | We measure the upper state lifetime and two ratios of vibrational branching fractions f_{v'v} on the B^{3}\Pi_{1}(v') - X^{1}\Sigma^{+}(v) transition of TlF. We find the B state lifetime to be 99(9) ns. We also determine that the off-diagonal vibrational decays are highly suppressed: f_{01}/f_{00} < 2x10^{-4} and f_{02}/f_{00} = 1.10(6)%, in excellent agreement with their predicted values of f_{01}/f_{00} < 8x10^{-4} and f_{02}/f_{00} = 1.0(2)% based on Franck-Condon factors calculated using Morse and RKR potentials. The implications of these results for the possible laser cooling of TlF and fundamental symmetries experiments are discussed. |
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