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Precision isotope shift metrology in the deep-UV region has been performed for all bosonic isotopes of mercury with a zero nuclear spin, by using the technique of frequency-comb referenced, wavelength-modulated, saturated absorption…
The absolute frequency measurement for all of the hyperfine transitions of 6P1/2 -> 7S1/2 using a self-referencing frequency comb is reported. This transition can be used as a bench marker for the accurate atomic wave function, and then…
In this paper, we present the spectroscopy of 6P$_{1/2}$ state in $^{87}$Rb using double resonance technique at $780~\text{nm}$ and $421~\text{nm}$. The double resonance technique is implemented using electromagnetically induced…
We develop a simple technique to accurately measure frequency differences between far lying resonances in a spectroscopy signal using a single laser. This technique was used to measure the isotope shift of the cooling transition of…
In this work we describe the latest results for the measurements of the hyperfine structure of antiprotonic helium-3. Two out of four measurable super-super-hyperfine SSHF transition lines of the (n,L)=(36,34) state of antiprotonic helium-3…
Optical clocks have achieved remarkable estimated fractional frequency uncertainties reaching the $10^{-18}$ level and below, enabling applications in fundamental physics, general relativity, and geodesy. However, the challenge of verifying…
We present measurements of the hyperfine structure splittings of $nS_{1/2}$ Rydberg states of $^{85}$Rb for $n$= 43, 44, 45 and 46. From the splittings, the hyperfine coupling constant, $A_{\mathrm{HFS}}$, is determined to be 15.372(80)…
We report the first absolute frequency measurements for the $5s5p^{3}$P$_{0}\to5s6d^{3}$D$_{1}$ transition at 394 nm for all the stable strontium isotopes by utilizing repumping induced spectroscopy in a magneto-optical trap. Absolute…
We have measured and analyzed the hyperfine structure of two lines, one at 583nm and one at 401nm, of the only stable fermionic isotope of atomic erbium as well as determined its isotope shift relative to the four most-abundant bosonic…
We present spectroscopic data for four metastable state clear-out transitions between 399 nm and 412 nm for all even long-lived isotopes of Yb$^+$ as well as their hyperfine structure in $^{171}$Yb$^+$. The strong $^2 \rm{D}_{3/2}…
We report on the absolute frequency determination of the 5s5p $^1P_1$ - 5s5d $^1D_2$ transition in atomic strontium, achieved through frequency comb-referenced laser-induced-fluorescence (LIF) spectroscopy. We excite the 5s$^2$ $^1S_0$ -…
Longstanding problems in the comparison of very accurate hyperfine-shift measurements to theory were partly overcome by precise measurements on few-electron highly-charged ions. Still the agreement between theory and experiment is…
We report on measurements on the 5S-6P rubidium transition frequencies for rubidium isotopes with an absolute uncertainty of better than \SI{450}{kHz} for the 5S $\rightarrow$ 6P$_{1/2}$ transition and \SI{20}{kHz} for the 5S $\rightarrow$…
We report on the improved measurement of the hyperfine structure of $4f^{12}(^3 H_6)5d_{5/2}6s^2$ $(J=9/2)$ excited state in Tm-169 which is involved in the second-stage laser cooling of Tm. To measure the absolute value of the hyperfine…
We report improved frequency ratio measurement with $^{87}$Sr and $^{171}$Yb optical lattice clocks at the National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ). The $^{87}$Sr optical lattice clock is enhanced with several major modifications and is…
We demonstrate a diode laser system operating at 399 nm that is stabilized to the ${\rm 6s^{2}\ {^1}S_{0} - 6s6p\ {^1}P_{1}}$ electric dipole transition in ytterbium (Yb) atoms in a hollow-cathode lamp. The frequency stability of the laser…
We experimentally investigate an optical frequency standard based on the $^2S_{1/2} (F=0)\to {}^2F_{7/2} (F=3)$ electric octupole (\textit{E}3) transition of a single trapped $^{171}$Yb$^+$ ion. For the spectroscopy of this strongly…
A frequency-stabilized light source emitting at 556 nm is realized by frequency-doubling a 1112-nm laser, which is phase-locked to a fiber-based optical frequency comb. The 1112-nm laser is either an ytterbium (Yb)-doped distributed…
We have measured the forbidden 2 3S1 - 2 1P1 transition at 887 nm in a quantum degenerate gas of metastable He-4 atoms confined in an optical dipole trap. The determined transition frequency is 338 133 594.4 (0.5) MHz, from which we obtain…
A 12.5 GHz-spaced optical frequency comb locked to a Global Positioning disciplined oscillator for near-IR spectrograph calibration is presented. The comb is generated via filtering a 250 MHz-spaced comb. Subsequency nonlinear broadening of…