Deceleration of neutral molecules in macroscopic traveling traps

被引：86

作者：

Osterwalder, Andreas ^{[1
]}

Meek, Samuel A. ^{[1
]}

Hammer, Georg ^{[1
]}

Haak, Henrik ^{[1
]}

Meijer, Gerard ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Max Planck Gesell, Fritz Haber Inst, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2010年 / 81卷 / 05期

关键词：

COLLISIONS;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevA.81.051401

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

A decelerator is presented where polar neutral molecules are guided and decelerated using the principle of traveling electric potential wells, such that molecules are confined in stable three-dimensional traps throughout. We compare this decelerator with that of Scharfenberg et al. [Phys. Rev. A 79, 023410 (2009)] and we show that the current decelerator provides a substantially larger phase-space acceptance, even at higher acceleration. The mode of operation is described and experimentally demonstrated by guiding and decelerating CO molecules.

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