Slowing polar molecules using a wire Stark decelerator
Atomic Physics
2010-09-28 v2
Abstract
We have designed and implemented a new Stark decelerator based on wire electrodes, which is suitable for ultrahigh vacuum applications. The 100 deceleration stages are fashioned out of 0.6 mm diameter tantalum and the array's total length is 110 mm, approximately 10 times smaller than a conventional Stark decelerator with the same number of electrode pairs. Using the wire decelerator, we have removed more than 90% of the kinetic energy from metastable CO molecules in a beam.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1004.4797,
title = {Slowing polar molecules using a wire Stark decelerator},
author = {Adela Marian and Henrik Haak and Peter Geng and Gerard Meijer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4797},
year = {2010}
}
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