Optical pumping of ${5s4d}^1{\mathrm{D}}_2$ strontium atoms for laser cooling and imaging

Abstract

We present a faster repumping scheme for strontium magneto-optical traps operating on the broad ${5{\mathrm{s}}^2}^1{\mathrm{S}}_0-{5s5p}^1{\mathrm{P}}_1$ laser cooling transition. Contrary to existing repumping schemes, we directly address lost atoms that spontaneously decayed to the ${5s4d}^1{\mathrm{D}}_2$ state, sending them back into the laser cooling cycle by optical pumping on the ${5s4d}^1{\mathrm{D}}_2-{5s8p}^1{\mathrm{P}}_1$ transition. We thus avoid the $\sim 100\mu \mathrm{s}$-slow decay path from ${5s4d}^1{\mathrm{D}}_2$ to the ${5s5p}^3{\mathrm{P}}_{1,2}$ states that is part of other repumping schemes. Using one low-cost external-cavity diode laser emitting at $448\mathrm{nm}$, we show our scheme increases the flux out of a 2D magneto-optical trap by $60\%$ compared to without repumping. Furthermore, we perform spectroscopy on the ${5s4d}^1{\mathrm{D}}_2-{5s8p}^1{\mathrm{P}}_1$ transition and measure its frequency ${\nu }_{{}^{88}\mathrm{Sr}}=(668917515.3\pm 4.0\pm 25)\mathrm{MHz}$. We also measure the frequency shifts between the four stable isotopes of strontium and infer the specific mass and field shift factors, $\delta {\nu }_{\text{SMS}}^{88,86}=-267(45)\mathrm{MHz}$ and $\delta {\nu }_{\text{FS}}^{88,86}=2(42)\mathrm{MHz}$. Finally, we measure the hyperfine splitting of the ${5s8p}^1{\mathrm{P}}_1$ state in fermionic strontium, and deduce the magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole coupling coefficients $A=-4(5)\mathrm{MHz}$ and $B=5(35)\mathrm{MHz}$. Our experimental demonstration shows that this simple and very fast scheme could improve the laser cooling and imaging performance of cold strontium atom devices, such as quantum computers based on strontium atoms in arrays of optical tweezers.

arXiv comment10 pages, 5 figures

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