Abstract
We use two-photon resonant excitation and time-correlated single-photon counting techniques on a sample of atoms confined and cooled in a magneto-optical trap to measure the lifetime of the excited level. Direct measurement of the decay through the level at 851 nm yields a lifetime of .
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