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Coherent amplification in laser cooling and trapping

Coherent amplification in laser cooling and trapping
Coherent amplification in laser cooling and trapping
The optical scattering force, behind Doppler cooling and magneto-optical trapping, may be amplified without incurring additional spontaneous emission by the state-dependent coherent deflection produced by a pulsed or chirped laser field. At some cost in experimental complexity, amplified forces allow efficient cooling on narrow transitions and permit the compact deceleration of beams with reduced transverse heating, and will be of interest for molecules and atoms with open level schemes where losses following spontaneous emission would otherwise prevail. We present a general analysis of the amplification scheme, and propose an optimized, dynamic cooling scheme that allows the temperature of a sample to be reduced by around a factor of two per excited state lifetime.
1050-2947
033409-[9pp]
Freegarde, Tim
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Daniell, Geoff
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Segal, Danny
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Freegarde, Tim
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Daniell, Geoff
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Segal, Danny
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Freegarde, Tim, Daniell, Geoff and Segal, Danny (2006) Coherent amplification in laser cooling and trapping. Physical Review A, 73 (2006), 033409-[9pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.73.033409).

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The optical scattering force, behind Doppler cooling and magneto-optical trapping, may be amplified without incurring additional spontaneous emission by the state-dependent coherent deflection produced by a pulsed or chirped laser field. At some cost in experimental complexity, amplified forces allow efficient cooling on narrow transitions and permit the compact deceleration of beams with reduced transverse heating, and will be of interest for molecules and atoms with open level schemes where losses following spontaneous emission would otherwise prevail. We present a general analysis of the amplification scheme, and propose an optimized, dynamic cooling scheme that allows the temperature of a sample to be reduced by around a factor of two per excited state lifetime.

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Published date: 7 March 2006

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Local EPrints ID: 21024
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/21024
ISSN: 1050-2947
PURE UUID: 13745172-1db1-4ee2-b7cb-b0492ca17b80
ORCID for Tim Freegarde: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0680-1330

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Date deposited: 09 Mar 2006
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:35

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Author: Tim Freegarde ORCID iD
Author: Geoff Daniell
Author: Danny Segal

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