Measurement of the lifetime of the atomic cesium 5(2)D(5/2) state with diode-laser excitation.
The lifetime of the atomic cesium 5(2)D(5/2) state was measured with time-correlated single-photon counting spectroscopy. Ground-state cesium atoms were excited with a diode laser by use of an electric quadrupole transition. Analysis of the exponential decay of the cascade photons from the 6(2)P(3/2) state yields a 5(2)D(5/2) lifetime of 1225(12) ns.
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