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Determination of transition frequencies in a single $^{138}$Ba$^{+}$ ion

Atomic Physics 2016-01-29 v1

Abstract

Transition frequencies between low-lying energy levels in a single trapped 138^{138}Ba+^{+} ion have been measured with laser spectroscopy referenced to an optical frequency comb. By extracting the frequencies of one-photon and two-photon components of the line shape using an eight-level optical Bloch model, we achieved 0.1 MHz accuracy for the 5d 2^{2}D3/2_{3/2} - 6p 2^{2}P1/2_{1/2} and 6s 2^{2}S1/2_{1/2} - 5d 2^{2}D3/2_{3/2} transition frequencies, and 0.2 MHz for the 6s 2^{2}S1/2_{1/2} - 6p 2^{2}P1/2_{1/2} transition frequency.

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@article{arxiv.1504.01285,
  title  = {Determination of transition frequencies in a single $^{138}$Ba$^{+}$ ion},
  author = {E. A. Dijck and M. Nuñez Portela and A. T. Grier and K. Jungmann and A. Mohanty and N. Valappol and L. Willmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.01285},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A