Absorption spectroscopy for laser cooling and high-fidelity detection of barium monofluoride molecules
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| author | Rockenhäuser, Marian Kogel, Felix Pultinevicius, Einius Langen, Tim |
| author_facet | Rockenhäuser, Marian Kogel, Felix Pultinevicius, Einius Langen, Tim |
| contents | Currently, there is great interest in laser cooling of barium monofluoride (BaF) molecules for precision tests of fundamental symmetries. We use high-resolution absorption spectroscopy to characterize several as yet imprecisely known transition frequencies required to realize such cooling. We extract an improved set of molecular constants for the bosonic 138Ba19F and 136Ba19F isotopologues, confirm the existence of a significant hyperfine splitting in the excited state of the laser cooling cycle, and investigate the effects of this splitting on the achievable cooling forces. As a direct application of our spectroscopic insights, we experimentally demonstrate nearly background-free fluorescence imaging of a BaF molecular beam in a glass cell vacuum chamber. We expect such high-fidelity detection to be useful for various types of precision measurement scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | Absorption spectroscopy for laser cooling and high-fidelity detection of barium monofluoride molecules Rockenhäuser, Marian Kogel, Felix Pultinevicius, Einius Langen, Tim Atomic Physics Chemical Physics Currently, there is great interest in laser cooling of barium monofluoride (BaF) molecules for precision tests of fundamental symmetries. We use high-resolution absorption spectroscopy to characterize several as yet imprecisely known transition frequencies required to realize such cooling. We extract an improved set of molecular constants for the bosonic 138Ba19F and 136Ba19F isotopologues, confirm the existence of a significant hyperfine splitting in the excited state of the laser cooling cycle, and investigate the effects of this splitting on the achievable cooling forces. As a direct application of our spectroscopic insights, we experimentally demonstrate nearly background-free fluorescence imaging of a BaF molecular beam in a glass cell vacuum chamber. We expect such high-fidelity detection to be useful for various types of precision measurement scenarios. |
| title | Absorption spectroscopy for laser cooling and high-fidelity detection of barium monofluoride molecules |
| topic | Atomic Physics Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08312 |