Abstract
AbstractWe present experiments on two‐photon excitation of 87Rb atoms to Rydberg states. For this purpose, two continuous‐wave (cw)‐laser systems for both 780 nm and 480 nm have been set up. These systems are optimized to a small linewidth (well below 1 MHz) to get both an efficient excitation process and good spectroscopic resolution. To test the performance of our laser system, we investigated the Stark splitting of Rydberg states. We were able to see for both of the n = 41D finestructure states the electrical field dependent |mj| splitting. To show the ability of spatially selective excitation to Rydberg states, we excited rubidium atoms in an electrical field gradient and investigated both linewidths and lineshifts. Furthermore we were able to excite the atoms selectively from the two hyperfine ground states to Rydberg states. Finally, we investigated the Autler‐Townes splitting of the 5S1/2(F = 2)→5P3/2(F = 3) transition coupled to the light field via a Rydberg state to determine the Rabi frequency of this excitation step.
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Created | 19 years ago (Aug. 2, 2006, 7:42 a.m.) |
Deposited | 1 year, 11 months ago (Sept. 1, 2023, 6:14 p.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year, 2 months ago (June 3, 2024, 5:18 p.m.) |
Issued | 19 years ago (Aug. 1, 2006) |
Published | 19 years ago (Aug. 1, 2006) |
Published Online | 19 years ago (Aug. 1, 2006) |
Published Print | 19 years ago (Aug. 23, 2006) |
@article{Grabowski_2006, title={High resolution Rydberg spectroscopy of ultracold rubidium atoms}, volume={54}, ISSN={1521-3978}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prop.200610310}, DOI={10.1002/prop.200610310}, number={8–10}, journal={Fortschritte der Physik}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Grabowski, A. and Heidemann, R. and Löw, R. and Stuhler, J. and Pfau, T.}, year={2006}, month=aug, pages={765–775} }