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Magnetic field-induced spectroscopy of strongly forbidden optical transitions

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

Abstract

We propose a method that uses a static magnetic field to enable direct optical excitation of forbidden electric dipole transitions that are otherwise prohibitively weak. The method is based on mixing of atomic states by a static magnetic field. The method 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
Issue
083001
Pub Type
Journals

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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, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=50212 (Accessed May 18, 2024)

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Created March 3, 2006, Updated February 17, 2017