Abstract
We have recently developed high-resolution vacuum ultraviolet laser sources and combined these with millimetre waves in double-resonance experiments to achieve a spectral resolution of up to 60 kHz in the spectra of high Rydberg states. The article describes the main features of our experimental procedure and presents studies in which we have used millimetre wave spectroscopy (a) to obtain information on the energy level structure, including the spin-orbit and hyperfine structure, of atomic Rydberg states at high principal quantum numbers n, (b) to record spectrally resolved spectra of the high Rydberg states ( n S 100) detected in pulsed-field-ionization zero-kinetic-energy photoelectron spectra, (c) to measure stray electric fields and ion concentrations in the gas phase, (d) to test and improve the selectivity of the electric field ionization of high Rydberg states and (e) to observe for the first time the hyperfine structure in high- n, low- l molecular Rydberg states.
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