Measuring the Band Populations in a Purely Optical Dark Lattice

F. Sander; T. Esslinger; T. W. Hänsch; H. Stecher; H. Ritsch; P. Zoller

European Quantum Electronics Conference
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1996),
paper QMA6

Measuring the Band Populations in a Purely Optical Dark Lattice

F. Sander, T. Esslinger, T. W. Hänsch, H. Stecher, H. Ritsch, and P. Zoller

European Quantum Electronics Conference 1996

Hamburg Germany
8–13 September 1996
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Optical Lattices (QMA)

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F. Sander, T. Esslinger, T. W. Hänsch, H. Stecher, H. Ritsch, and P. Zoller, "Measuring the Band Populations in a Purely Optical Dark Lattice," in European Quantum Electronics Conference, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1996), paper QMA6.

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Abstract

We create a dark optical lattice structure in a standing wave tuned to the blue of the F=3 to F=3 transition of the ⁸⁵Rubidium D₁-line. The coupling of the F=3 ground state to both the F=2 and F=3 excited states induces a periodic potential in which the atoms are trapped at locations of purely circular polarisation, where they are only weakly coupled to the light field.

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