LASER COOLING OF A SMALL NUMBER OF BE+ IONS IN A PENNING TRAP

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作者
IMAJO, H [1 ]
URABE, S [1 ]
HAYASAKA, K [1 ]
WATANABE, M [1 ]
HAYASHI, R [1 ]
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[1] KAGOSHIMA UNIV,FAC ENGN,KAGOSHIMA 890,JAPAN
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APPLIED PHYSICS B-PHOTOPHYSICS AND LASER CHEMISTRY | 1993年 / 57卷 / 02期
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10.1007/BF00425998
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Be+ ions stored in a Penning trap were cooled by a laser beam perpendicular to the magnetic field. The cooled ions are strongly coupled and phase transitions of up to 100 ions were observed. In experiments with only a few ions stored in the trap, a stepwise decrease in fluorescence intensity was observed. All steps are of the same size and so every step is attributed to a single ion. The discrete changes in fluorescence occurred more frequently when the background pressure was increased, caused by collisions between stored ions and background neutral molecules.
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