{"id":385,"date":"2019-05-01T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T16:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/?p=385"},"modified":"2019-06-07T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T16:02:30","slug":"isotope-shift-measurement-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/uncategorized\/isotope-shift-measurement-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Isotope Shift Measurement Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a lot of late nights by Prof. Doret and Felix Knollmann &#8217;19, we&#8217;ve finally finished our 729 nm E2 transition isotope shift measurements.\u00a0 Final data looks something like this prior to analyzing possible systematics:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-387 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2019\/06\/IS_results-189x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2019\/06\/IS_results-189x300.png 189w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2019\/06\/IS_results-768x1219.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2019\/06\/IS_results-645x1024.png 645w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2019\/06\/IS_results.png 1059w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Details to come in a forthcoming paper.\u00a0 But, in brief:\u00a0we use a fiber EOM to span the isotope shift in some pairing of co-trapped calcium isotopes and scan the laser across the 729 nm transition in both ions simultaneously.\u00a0 This gives rise to a pair of spectra; we actually alternate scans across two transitions with opposing magnetic field sensitivities (yielding the four spectra shown).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-388 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2019\/06\/Spectra-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2019\/06\/Spectra-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2019\/06\/Spectra-768x558.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2019\/06\/Spectra-1024x744.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fitting for the line-centers allows us to extract a value for the isotope shift which is independent from differential Zeeman shifts between the co-trapped ions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lot of late nights by Prof. Doret and Felix Knollmann &#8217;19, we&#8217;ve finally finished our 729 nm E2 transition isotope shift measurements.\u00a0 Final data looks something like this prior to analyzing possible systematics: Details to come in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/uncategorized\/isotope-shift-measurement-finished\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}