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Magnetic Field-Induced Spectroscopy of Strongly Forbidden Optical Transitions

Published

Author(s)

Alexey Taychenachev, V Yudin, Christopher W. Oates, C Hoyt, Zeb Barber, Leo W. Hollberg

Abstract

We propse a method that uses a static magnetic field to enalbe direct optical excitation of forbidden electric dipole transitions that are otherwise prohibitively weak. The method is based on mxing of atomic states by a static magnetic field. The methid can also be viewed as a limiting case of two-photon spectroscopy, where the frequency of one of the fields--a magnetic field, in this case -- is equal to zero. Using this method, we calculate that an optical lattice-based ytterbium standard could achieve a fractional frequency uncertainty of less than 10-17 for the metrologically preferred even isotope.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
96
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

atomic coherence, laser frequency metrology, laser spectroscopy

Citation

Taychenachev, A. , Yudin, V. , Oates, C. , Hoyt, C. , Barber, Z. and Hollberg, L. (2006), Magnetic Field-Induced Spectroscopy of Strongly Forbidden Optical Transitions, Physical Review Letters (Accessed April 19, 2024)

Created March 1, 2006, Updated February 17, 2017