SIMPLEST ATOMIC SYSTEM FOR SUB-DOPPLER LASER COOLING

被引:15
作者
GUPTA, R
PADUA, S
XIE, C
BATELAAN, H
METCALF, H
机构
[1] Department of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
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10.1364/JOSAB.11.000537
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Sub-Doppler laser cooling requires optical pumping among differently light-shifted ground-state sublevels. We describe a study of the simplest possible angular-momentum configuration that permits all sub-Doppler cooling phenomena. The J(g) = 1 double-line arrow pointing right J(e) = 0 angular-momentum configuration shows recoil-limited cooling in the two most well-known types of polarization gradient, magnetically induced laser cooling, velocity-selective resonances, transient cooling, and velocity-selective population trapping.
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