Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Mercury Atoms in a Magneto-Optical Trap

Patrick Villwock; Sebastian Siol; Thomas Walther

doi:10.1364/QELS.2010.QFE6

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2010
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2010),
paper QFE6
•https://doi.org/10.1364/QELS.2010.QFE6

Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Mercury Atoms in a Magneto-Optical Trap

Patrick Villwock, Sebastian Siol, and Thomas Walther

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference 2010

San Jose, California United States
16–21 May 2010
ISBN: 978-1-55752-889-6

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Optical Interactions with Cold Atoms (QFE)

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P. Villwock, S. Siol, and T. Walther, "Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Mercury Atoms in a Magneto-Optical Trap," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2010, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2010), paper QFE6.

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Abstract

We report on the trapping of mercury in a magneto-optical trap from the background vapor using the ¹S₀-³P₁ intercombination line. Up to (3.2 ± 0.3) × 10^{6 202}Hg-atoms have been captured at a density of (4.8 ± 1.4) × 10¹⁰ atoms/_cm³.

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