Collisionally induced ionization of Rubidium atoms in rydberg states

✍ Scribed by T.J. Whitaker; B.A. Bushaw

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 287 KB
• Volume: 79
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(81)85024-5

✦ Synopsis

The efficiency of collsional ionization of escited rubidium atoms is demonstrated for (\mathrm{Rb}^{*}-\mathrm{Kr}) collisions Since the power required to optically saturate the Rydberg levels is much lower than for phototonization, the technique promisus to reduce the laser requrements in sungle-atom detection and other resonance ionization experiments