DETECTION OF RARE ISOTOPES BY COLLINEAR-FAST-BEAM PHOTON-BURST SPECTROSCOPY

abstract

• An experiment is presently being set up which uses collinear-fast-beam laser spectroscopy with photon-burst detection. The large artificial kinetic isotope shift characteristic of an accelerated beam, together with the Doppler-free linewidth of the fluorescence from the practically mono-kinetic fast atoms, lead to a selectivity against neighboring isotopes exceeding parts in 109. In addition, photon-burst detection based on photon correlations in the resonance fluorescence is employed to increase the sensitivity. The sensitivity is expected to reach the few ten atom/s level. The technique is being tested using a 10 to 50 KeV beam of krypton atoms and light from a single mode Ti-Sapphire laser at = 811 nm.

authors

• Schuessler, Hans

published proceedings

• INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS CONFERENCE SERIES

author list (cited authors)

• BENCK, E. C., SCHUESSLER, H. A., BUCHINGER, F., & CARTER, K.

complete list of authors

• BENCK, EC||SCHUESSLER, HA||BUCHINGER, F||CARTER, K

publication date

• December 1992

published in

• Conference Series- Institute of Physics  Journal

start page

• 329

end page

• 332

volume

• 128

issue

• 128