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A gallium arsenide laser was used as an optical sweep generator to display the 8521-Å hyperfine lines of an atomic cesium beam. The largest contribution to the displayed over-all linewidths of about 60 MHz is due to the atomic beam divergence of the order of 5°.
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Hochuli et al. (1969) studied this question.
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