Double ressonance optical spectroscopy in calcium

Author(s)

Luciana Claudia Martins Ferreira Diogenes

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin
• Defense date: 2004-11-19

Examining board members

Flávio Caldas da Cruz; Armando Mirage; Daniel Pereira

• Advisor: Flávio Caldas da Cruz

Abstract

This work consists of a study of the weak 1 S 0 - 3 P 1 calcium transition in an atomic beam. This intercombination transition at 657 nm is a promising unified standard of length, time and frequency. Direct optical detection requires is difficult because it is a weak transition (g ~ 2000 s -1). However since calcium has a strong transition ( 1 S0 - 1 P1) which shares the ground state with this weak transition, we can observe that the fluorescence from the 1 S0 -1 P1 transition is modified when a laser at 657 nm is tuned to resonance with the weak intercombination transition. A simulation was carried out to obtain the populations of these three levels as function of the lasers detuning and intensity (AU)