Accession Number:
AD0767666
Title:
On the Possibility of High Precision Beam-Foil Spectroscopy Using a Modified Lamb-Dip Technique,
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Corporate Author:
ARIZONA UNIV TUCSON DEPT OF PHYSICS
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Report Date:
1972-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
11.0
Abstract:
The application of beam-foil techniques to high precision atomic physics is complicated by dispersion in the atomic velocities. This is analogous to the thermal Doppler broadening found in conventional laboratory sources. The advent of stable high-intensity laser sources has led to saturation Lamb-dip spectroscopy, which enables measurement eigenfrequencies and natural lifetimes independent of the Doppler width. The application of this idea to beam-foil experiments involves two tunable laser sources. A simple calculation suggests that the resolution might be improved by several orders of magnitude. Modified author abstract
Subject Categories:
- Atomic and Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy