Measurement of the lifetime of the $7s^2{S}_{1/2}$ state in atomic cesium using asynchronous gated detection

George Toh, Jose A. Jaramillo-Villegas, Nathan Glotzbach +5

We report a measurement of the lifetime of the cesium $7s{}^2{S}_{1/2}$ state using time-correlated single-photon counting spectroscopy in a vapor cell. We excite the atoms using a D…