Pioneering Raman Transition Techniques in Collinear Laser Spectroscopy for High-Precision Experiments

This work provides new calculations and simulations on driving Raman transitions with two different lasers on a fast ion beam in collinear/anticollinear geometry. Simulations include ion energy distributions and spatial intensity distributions.
First experimental results in the ＄\mathrm{S}_{1/2}＄-＄\mathrm{P}_{3/2}＄-＄\mathrm{D}_{3/2}＄ and ＄\mathrm{S}_{1/2}＄-＄\mathrm{P}_{3/2}＄-＄\mathrm{D}_{5/2}＄ ＄\Lambda＄-schemes of ＄ {88}＄Sr＄ +＄ are presented. A newly developed Doppler-free double Raman scheme is used to measure the ＄\mathrm{D}_{3/2} ightarrow\mathrm{D}_{5/2}＄ transition. The measurements performed in this work investigate the systematic uncertainties of this method as well as its experimental limitations and will demonstrate the feasibility and the advances of this approach.

Julien Spahn is a PhD student at the institute of nuclear physics, TU Darmstadt. He is specialized in collinear laser spectroscopy.