Mitigation of loss within a molecular Stark decelerator

被引：35

作者：

Sawyer, B. C. ^{[1
,2
]}

Stuhl, B. K. ^{[1
,2
]}

Lev, B. L. ^{[1
,2
]}

Ye, J. ^{[1
,2
]}

Hudson, E. R. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Colorado, JILA, Natl Inst Stand & Technol, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

[2] Univ Colorado, Dept Phys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

[3] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

来源：

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL D | 2008年 / 48卷 / 02期

关键词：

37.10.Mn Slowing and cooling of molecules; 37.20.+j Atomic and molecular beam sources and techniques; 37.90.+j Other topics in mechanical control of atoms, molecules, and ions;

D O I：

10.1140/epjd/e2008-00097-y

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

The transverse motion inside a Stark decelerator plays a large role in the total efficiency of deceleration. We differentiate between two separate regimes of molecule loss during the slowing process. The first mechanism involves distributed loss due to coupling of transverse and longitudinal motion, while the second is a result of the rapid decrease of the molecular velocity within the final few stages. In this work, we describe these effects and present means for overcoming them. Solutions based on modified switching time sequences with the existing decelerator geometry lead to a large gain of stable molecules in the intermediate velocity regime, but fail to address the loss at very low final velocities. We propose a new decelerator design, the quadrupole-guiding decelerator, which eliminates distributed loss due to transverse/longitudinal couplings throughout the slowing process and also exhibits gain over normal deceleration to the lowest velocities.

引用

页码：197 / 209

页数：13

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