Dual Hg-Rb magneto-optical trap
Atomic Physics
2017-02-15 v1
Abstract
We present a two-species laser cooling apparatus capable of simultaneously collecting Rb and Hg atomic gases into a magneto-optical trap (MOT). The atomic sources, laser system, and vacuum set-up are described. While there is a loss of Rb atoms in the MOT due to photoionization by the Hg cooling laser, we show that it does not prevent simultaneous trapping of Rb and Hg. We also demonstrate interspecies collision-induced losses in the Rb-Hg system.
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@article{arxiv.1702.04119,
title = {Dual Hg-Rb magneto-optical trap},
author = {Marcin Witkowski and Bartlomiej Nagoorny and Rodolfo Munoz-Rodriguez and Roman Ciurylo and Piotr Szymon Zuchowski and Slawomir Bilicki and Marcin Piotrowski and Piotr Morzynski and Michal Zawada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.04119},
year = {2017}
}
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