Shelving spectroscopy of the strontium intercombination line

We present a spectroscopy scheme for the 7 kHz wide 689 nm intercombination line of strontium. We rely on shelving detection, where electrons are first excited to a metastable state by the spectroscopy laser before their state is probed using the broad transition at 461 nm.
arXiv:1910.11718 (2019) / J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 53 085005 (2020)

New spectroscopy scheme

We concluded a great collaborative work with Marc Cheneau and his team, at Laboratoire Charles Fabry, on a new spectroscopy scheme for the intercombination line for strontium. For a large spectroscopy signal and a low complexity, look here.