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稳定的高亮度低速亚稳态氦原子束流

陈娇娇 孙羽 温金录 胡水明

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稳定的高亮度低速亚稳态氦原子束流

陈娇娇, 孙羽, 温金录, 胡水明

A bright and stable beam of slow metastable helium atoms

Chen Jiao-Jiao, Sun Yu, Wen Jin-Lu, Hu Shui-Ming
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  • 稳定的高强度原子束流源是很多精密测量实验的关键. 亚稳态($2^3{\rm S}$)氦原子的精密光谱测量在检验量子电动力学、测定精细结构常数研究中受到重要关注. 本文利用激光冷却方法增强束流强度、通过塞曼减速器降低原子的纵向速度, 并利用反馈控制稳定束流强度. 实验测得, 所产生的亚稳态氦原子连续束流在$(100\pm 3.6)$ m/s 速度下, 强度达$5.8\times 10^{12}$ atoms/(s·sr), 相对稳定度为 0.021%. 利用该原子束, 示范了在仅0.1%的饱和光强条件下进行$^4{\rm{He}}$原子$2^3{\rm S}—2^3{\rm P}$跃迁的光谱探测, 此时由探测光功率带来的频移低于1 kHz.
    A stable high-intensity atomic beam source plays a key role in many precision measurements. The precision spectroscopy of slow metastable ($2^3{\rm S}$) helium atoms is of great interest in testing quantum electrodynamics and determining the fine structure constant. By improving the source cavity structure and using laser cooling method, the beam flux is greatly enhanced. The added Zeeman slower reduces the longitudinal velocity of atoms, and at the same time increases the beam brightness of atoms at one single speed. Near the back end of Zeeman slower, a two-dimensional magneto-optical trap is added to collimate and focus the atomic beam. In addition, A beam stabilizing system is developed by using feedback control method. By changing the frequency of transverse cooling laser to change the cooling efficiency, the fluctuation of atomic beam intensity can be compensated in real time, and then the beam intensity can be stabilized at the target number. Experiments show that the continuous beam of metastable helium atoms at a velocity of $(100\pm 3.6)$ m/s has an intensity of $5.8\times10^{12}$ atoms/s/sr and a relative stability of 0.021%. In the experiment of precise spectral measurement based on atomic beam, the narrow longitudinal velocity distribution reduces the lateral Doppler broadening effect, and the lower longitudinal velocity also reasonably reduces the systematic error caused by the first-order Doppler effect. The atomic beam with such high intensity and stability in a single momentum and quantum state obviously improves the signal-to-noise ratio of the spectrum, and further reduces the statistical error of the results in the same detection time. Using this atomic beam, we demonstrated spectroscopy of the $2^3{\rm S}-2^3{\rm P}$ transition of $^4{\rm{He}}$ under the condition of only 0.1% of the saturated intensity. At this time, the full width at half maximum of the spectral peak is almost close to the natural line width, but the spectral signal-to-noise ratio is still better than 400 and the frequency shift caused by the detection laser power can be less than 1 kHz. This kind of spectral detection at low power can effectively reduce the power-dependent frequency shift, thus obtaining more reliable detection results. This metastable helium atom beam experimental system can also be used as a reference for similar precision measurement experiments.
      通信作者: 孙羽, robert@mail.ustc.edu.cn
    • 基金项目: 中国科学院战略性先导科技专项(B类) (批准号: XDB21010400, XDB21020100)、国家自然科学基金(批准号: 91736101, 21688102, 11304303, 91436209, 21427804)和安徽量子信息技术首创项目(批准号: AHY110000)资助的课题
      Corresponding author: Sun Yu, robert@mail.ustc.edu.cn
    • Funds: Project supported by the Strategic Leading Science and Technology Project (B) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. XDB21010400, XDB21020100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91736101, 21688102, 11304303, 91436209, 21427804), and the Initiative in Quantum Information Technologies of Anhui Province, China (Grant No. AHY110000)
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  • 图 1  氦原子$2^3 {\rm S}—2^3 {\rm P}$跃迁频率测量实验装置示意图. 插图为$2^3 {\rm S}—2^3 {\rm P}$跃迁能级图. ECDL, 外腔式半导体激光器; EOM, 电光调制器; GPS, 全球定位系统; OFC, 光学频率梳; AOM, 声光调制器; BS, 分束棱镜; ULE, 超低膨胀系数标准具; FM, 幅度调制

    Fig. 1.  Schematic diagram of the experimental setup for measuring the $2^3 {\rm S}-2^3 {\rm P}$ transition frequency of helium. Inset: Energy diagram of the $2 ^3 {\rm S}-2 ^3 {\rm P}$ transitions. ECDL, external cavity diode laser; EOM, electro-optical modulator; GPS, global positioning system; OFC, optical frequency comb; AOM, acoustic-optical modulator; BS, beam splitter; PZT, piezoelectric transducer; ULE, ultralow expansion; FM, amplitude modulation.

    图 2  氦原子束流强度相对稳定度

    Fig. 2.  Diagram of the intensity stability of the helium beam.

    图 3  速度为$(100\pm3.6)$ m/s的氦原子束流强度

    Fig. 3.  Beam intensity evolution of helium atoms at $(100\pm3.6)$ m/s.

    图 4  $2^3 {\rm S}_1—2^3 {\rm P}_0$跃迁测量实验过程 (a) 光学抽运; (b) 光谱探测

    Fig. 4.  Experimental procedure of the measurement of the $2^3 {\rm S}_1-2^3 {\rm P}_0$ transition: (a) Optical pumping; (b) spectroscopy probing.

    图 5  $2^3 {\rm S}_1—2^3 {\rm P}_0$跃迁单次扫描所获得光谱

    Fig. 5.  A single scan spectrum of $2^3 {\rm S}_1 - 2^3 {\rm P}_0$ transition.

    图 6  不同探测激光功率下获得的氦原子跃迁频率

    Fig. 6.  Transition frequencies of helium obtained at different probing laser powers.

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    [2]

    Salumbides E J, Koelemeij J C J, Komasa J, Pachucki K, Eikema K S E, Ubachs W 2013 Phys. Rev. D 87 112008Google Scholar

    [3]

    Ficek F, Kimball D F J, Kozlov M G, Leefer N, Pustelny S, Budker D 2017 Phys. Rev. A 95 032505Google Scholar

    [4]

    Pachucki K, Yerokhin V A 2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 070403Google Scholar

    [5]

    Drake G W F 2002 Can. J. Phys. 80 1195

    [6]

    Pachucki K 2006 Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 013002Google Scholar

    [7]

    Ottermann C R, Köbschall G, Maurer K, Röhrich K, Schmitt Ch, Walther V H 1985 Nucl. Phys. A 436 688Google Scholar

    [8]

    Sick I 2015 J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 44 031213Google Scholar

    [9]

    Yerokhin V A, Pachucki K 2016 Phys. Rev. A 94 052508Google Scholar

    [10]

    Pahcucki K, Patkos V, Yerokhin V A 2017 Phys. Rev. A 95 062510Google Scholar

    [11]

    Feng G P, Zheng X, Sun Y R, Hu S M 2015 Phys. Rev. A 91 030502Google Scholar

    [12]

    Zheng X, Sun Y R, Chen J J, Jiang W, Pachucki K, Hu S M 2017 Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 263002Google Scholar

    [13]

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    [14]

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    [15]

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    [16]

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    Pastor P C, Giusfredi G, Natale P D, Hagel G, Mauro C D, Inguscio M 2004 Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 023001Google Scholar

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