Measurement of the lifetime of the atomic cesium 5^2D_5/2 state with diode-laser excitation
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 21 (1), 74-76
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.21.000074
Abstract
The lifetime of the atomic cesium 5(2)D(5/2) state was measured with time-correlated single-photon counting spectroscopy. Ground-state cesium atoms were excited with a diode laser by use of an electric quadrupole transition. Analysis of the exponential decay of the cascade photons from the 6(2)P(3/2) state yields a 5(2)D(5/2) lifetime of 1225(12) ns.Keywords
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