• DOI:10.1103/physreva.102.042802
• Corpus ID: 220404327

Transition frequencies and hyperfine structure in In+113,115 : Application of a liquid-metal ion source for collinear laser spectroscopy

@article{Knig2020TransitionFA,
  title={Transition frequencies and hyperfine structure in 
In+113,115
: Application of a liquid-metal ion source for collinear laser spectroscopy},
  author={Kristian K{\"o}nig and J{\"o}rg Kr{\"a}mer and Phillip Imgram and Bernhard Maa{\ss} and Wilfried N{\"o}rtersh{\"a}user and Tim Ratajczyk},
  journal={Physical Review A},
  year={2020},
  volume={102}
}

• K. König, J. Krämer, +3 authors T. Ratajczyk
• Published 7 July 2020
• Physics
• Physical Review A

We demonstrate the first application of a liquid-metal ion source for collinear laser spectroscopy in proof-of-principle measurements on naturally abundant In$^+$. The superior beam quality, i.e., the actively stabilized current and energy of a beam with very low transverse emittance, allowed us to perform precision spectroscopy on the $5s^2\;^1\mathrm{S}_0 \rightarrow 5s5p\;^3\mathrm{P}_1$ intercombination transition in $^{115}$In$^+$, which is to our knowledge the slowest transition measured with collinear fluorescence laser spectroscopy so far. By applying collinear and anticollinear spectroscopy, we improved the center-of-gravity frequency $\nu_\mathrm{cg}=1\,299\,617\,759.\,3\,(1.2)$ and the hyperfine constants $A=6957.19\,(28)$\,MHz and $B=-443.7\,(2.4)$\,MHz by more than two orders of magnitude. A similar accuracy was reached for $^{113}$In$^+$ in combination with literature data and the isotope shift between both naturally abundant isotopes was deduced to $\nu(^{113}\mathrm{In})-\nu(^{115}\mathrm{In})=696.3\,(3.1)$\,MHz. Nuclear alignment induced by optical pumping in a preparation section of the ion beamline was demonstrated as a pump-and-probe approach to provide sharp features on top of the Doppler broadened resonance profile.