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High-Accuracy Deep-UV Ramsey-comb Spectroscopy in Krypton

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In this paper, we present a detailed account of the first precision Ramsey-comb spectroscopy in the deep UV. We excite krypton in an atomic beam using pairs of frequency-comb laser pulses that have been amplified to the millijoule level and upconverted through frequency doubling in BBO crystals. The resulting phase-coherent deep-UV pulses at 212.55 nm are used in the Ramsey-comb method to excite the two-photon \( 4{p}^6\to 4{p}^55p{\left[1/2\right]}_0 \) transition. For the \( {}^{84}\mathrm{Kr} \) isotope, we find a transition frequency of 2829833101679(103) kHz. The fractional accuracy of \( 3.7\times \) \( {10}^{-11} \) is 34 times better than previous measurements, and also the isotope shifts are measured with improved accuracy. This demonstration shows the potential of Ramsey-comb excitation for precision spectroscopy at short wavelengths.

This article is part of the topical collection “Enlightening the World with the Laser” - Honoring T. W. Hänsch guest edited by Tilman Esslinger, Nathalie Picqué, and Thomas Udem.

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The work in this paper was funded by the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) through its Program 125: ‘Broken Mirrors and Drifting Constants’ and Projectruimte 12PR3098: ‘Exploring the Boundaries of QED with Helium\( {}^{+} \)’.

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Galtier, S., Altmann, R.K., Dreissen, L.S., Eikema, K.S.E. (2018). High-Accuracy Deep-UV Ramsey-comb Spectroscopy in Krypton. In: Meschede, D., Udem, T., Esslinger, T. (eds) Exploring the World with the Laser. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64346-5_13

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