  The Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy (SAS) was performed to measure the
hyperfine energy splittings of rubidium 5P$_{1/2}$ excited state using a
homemade external-cavity diode laser (ECDL) operating at 795 nm. Any
nonlinearities associated with ECDL scans were removed by using a low-expansion
confocal Fabry-Perot cavity and hence created a linearized frequency axis for
the spectra collected in a fully automated fashion. We report our measurements
for the magnetic dipole coupling constants 120.79(29) and 407.75(50) for
$^{85}Rb$ and $^{87}Rb$ respectively.
