Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group
  • Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1993),
  • paper QThG4

Dark spontaneous-force optical trap for sodium atoms

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

Since its invention the magneto-optical trap (MOT) has offered a relatively simple way to trap and study cold neutral atoms.1 However, the maximum density achieved in such a trap is much lower than is desirable for the study of cold collisions and the realization of evaporative cooling schemes. The density is limited by two processes; (1) trap loss due to excited-state collisions2 and (2) the repulsive force generated by the rescattering of photons.3

© 1993 Optical Society of America

PDF Article
More Like This
Dark spontaneous-force optical trap

Wolfgang Ketterle, Kendall B. Davis, Michael A. Joffe, Alex Martin, and David E. Pritchard
ML.1 OSA Annual Meeting (FIO) 1993

Dark MOT and Magnetic Trap of Sodium atoms

R. Tajima, S. Hayakawa, T. Miyaharu, S. Watanabe, T. Aoki, and A. Morinaga
P1_41 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Pacific Rim (CLEO/PR) 2001

Light-intensity dependence of collisional loss for sodium atoms in a magneto-optical trap

L. Marcassa, V. Bagnato, Y. Wang, J. Weiner, P. Julienne, N. Bigelow, and Y. Band
TuDD.4 OSA Annual Meeting (FIO) 1993

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved