A VUV light source for enhanced production of metastable krypton and
xenon beams
A VUV light source for enhanced production of metastable krypton and
xenon beams
We demonstrate excitation of metastable krypton and xenon beams using a vacuum ultraviolet lamp and directly compare the performance of this method to metastable excitation based on a radiofrequency-driven plasma discharge. In our apparatus, lamp-based metastable excitation outperforms the plasma discharge across a wide range of beam flux values relevant …