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The development of Doppler-free laser techniques has allowed substantial improvement of the resolution observed in optical spectroscopy. In recent years these techniques have been applied to atomic hydrogen in order to increase the precision on the Rydberg constant R∞. Up to 1986, the most precise determination of R∞ has been obtained in studying the Balmer a line. The measurement was limited to a precision of 10-9 because of the natural width of the 3P level (30 MHz) |1|.
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Julien, L., Garreau, J.C., Biraben, F. (1987). Determination of the Rydberg Constant by Doppler-Free Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Rydberg States. In: Persson, W., Svanberg, S. (eds) Laser Spectroscopy VIII. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47973-4_2
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