Quantitative simulation of a magneto-optical trap operating near the photon recoil limit
Atomic Physics
2017-12-13 v1
Abstract
We present a quantitative model for magneto-optical traps operating on narrow transitions, where the transition linewidth and the recoil shift are comparable. We combine a quantum treatment of the light scattering process with a Monte-Carlo simulation of the atomic motion. By comparing our model to an experiment operating on the transition in strontium, we show that it quantitatively reproduces the cloud size, position, temperature and dynamics over a wide range of operating conditions, without any adjustable parameters. We also present an extension of the model that quantitatively reproduces the transfer of atoms into a far off-resonance dipole trap (FORT), highlighting its use as a tool for optimising complex cold atom experiments.
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@article{arxiv.1706.04807,
title = {Quantitative simulation of a magneto-optical trap operating near the photon recoil limit},
author = {Ryan K. Hanley and Paul Huillery and Niamh C. Keegan and Alistair D. Bounds and R. Faoro and Matthew P. A. Jones},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.04807},
year = {2017}
}