Abstract
Detection of single atoms Yb has been achieved using the method of electric-field ionization from the high-lying Rydberg states. Atoms of Yb in a beam were excited in three steps to a 17-p state by radiation of three pulsed dye lasers. The statistics of an atom’s appearance in the interaction volume have been studied in the single-ion-counting regime at low beam density.
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