• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 16, Issue 6, 060202 (2018)
Xiaohu Fu1、2、3, Su Fang1、2, Ruchen Zhao1、2, Ye Zhang1、2、3, Junchao Huang1、2、3, Jianfang Sun1、2, Zhen Xu1、2、3、4、*, and Yuzhu Wang1、2、3、4
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 4Center of Cold Atom Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201816.060202 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xiaohu Fu, Su Fang, Ruchen Zhao, Ye Zhang, Junchao Huang, Jianfang Sun, Zhen Xu, Yuzhu Wang. Observation of the 1S03P0 optical clock transition in cold 199Hg atoms[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2018, 16(6): 060202 Copy Citation Text show less
    Experimental setup schematic.
    Fig. 1. Experimental setup schematic.
    Sequences of the cooling laser and clock laser for in-field detection and free-of-field detection.
    Fig. 2. Sequences of the cooling laser and clock laser for in-field detection and free-of-field detection.
    (a) Normalized atom number in the MOT under the in-field (blue) and the free-of-field (red) spectroscopy fitted with a Gaussian function at 1 mW. (b), (c), (d) Free-of-field spectroscopy of the clock transition at incident powers of 0.7, 0.2, and 0.03 mW and their fittings.
    Fig. 3. (a) Normalized atom number in the MOT under the in-field (blue) and the free-of-field (red) spectroscopy fitted with a Gaussian function at 1 mW. (b), (c), (d) Free-of-field spectroscopy of the clock transition at incident powers of 0.7, 0.2, and 0.03 mW and their fittings.
    (a) Calculated temperature of the atoms in MOT from the FWHM of the spectroscopy at different clock laser powers. (b) Contrast of the spectroscopy (i.e., depletion rate) at different clock laser powers. (c) The center frequency of the free-of-field spectroscopy at different clock laser power.
    Fig. 4. (a) Calculated temperature of the atoms in MOT from the FWHM of the spectroscopy at different clock laser powers. (b) Contrast of the spectroscopy (i.e., depletion rate) at different clock laser powers. (c) The center frequency of the free-of-field spectroscopy at different clock laser power.
    Doppler-free signal in the Doppler-broadened spectroscopy.
    Fig. 5. Doppler-free signal in the Doppler-broadened spectroscopy.
    Xiaohu Fu, Su Fang, Ruchen Zhao, Ye Zhang, Junchao Huang, Jianfang Sun, Zhen Xu, Yuzhu Wang. Observation of the 1S03P0 optical clock transition in cold 199Hg atoms[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2018, 16(6): 060202
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