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We propose a laser cooling technique in which atoms are selectively excited to a dressed metastable state whose light shift and decay rate are spatially correlated for Sisyphus cooling. The case of cooling magnetically trapped…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Saijun Wu , Roger C. Brown , William D. Phillips , J. V. Porto

We present an efficient method for subrecoil cooling of neutral atoms by applying Raman cooling in 2D to a four-level tripod-system. The atoms can be cooled simultaneously in two directions using only three laser beams. We describe the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Vladimir S. Ivanov , Yuri V. Rozhdestvensky , Kalle-Antti Suominen

The development of the magneto-optical trap revolutionized the fields of atomic and quantum physics by providing a simple method for the rapid production of ultracold, trapped atoms. A similar technique for producing a diverse set of dense,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-04-17 Matthew T. Hummon , Mark Yeo , Benjamin K. Stuhl , Alejandra L. Collopy , Yong Xia , Jun Ye

The combination of ultra-cold atomic clouds with the light fields of optical cavities provides a powerful model system for the development of new types of laser cooling and for studying cooperative phenomena. These experiments critically…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-01-29 Simone Bux , Gordon Krenz , Sebastian Slama , Claus Zimmermann , Philippe W. Courteille

We report on the efficient gray molasses cooling of sodium atoms using the $D_{2}$ optical transition at 589.1 nm. Thanks to the hyperfine split about 6$\Gamma$ between the $|F'=2\rangle$ and $|F'=3\rangle$ in the excited state…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-26 Zhenlian Shi , Pengjun Wang , Ziliang Li , Zengming Meng , Lianghui Huang , Jing Zhang

Ultracold atoms at temperatures close to the recoil limit have been achieved by extending Doppler cooling to forbidden transitions. A cloud of ^40Ca atoms has been cooled and trapped to a temperature as low as 6 \mu K by operating a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 T. Binnewies , G. Wilpers , U. Sterr , F. Riehle , J. Helmcke , T. E. Mehlstäubler , E. M. Rasel , W. Ertmer

We present a single solid-state laser system to cool, coherently manipulate and detect $^{25}$Mg$^+$ ions. Coherent manipulation is accomplished by coupling two hyperfine ground state levels using a pair of far-detuned Raman laser beams.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 Boerge Hemmerling , Florian Gebert , Yong Wan , Daniel Nigg , Ivan V. Sherstov , Piet O. Schmidt

A cooling scheme for trapped atoms is proposed, which combines cavity-enhanced scattering and electromagnetically induced transparency. The cooling dynamics exploits a three-photon resonance, which combines laser and cavity excitations. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 Marc Bienert , Giovanna Morigi

We study resolved sideband laser cooling of a one-dimensional optical lattice with one atom per site, and in particular the effect of the dipole interaction between radiating atoms. For simplicity, we consider the case where only a single…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-06-17 Rebecca N. Palmer , Almut Beige

We simultaneously trap ultracold lithium and cesium atoms in an optical dipole trap formed by the focus of a CO$_2$ laser and study the exchange of thermal energy between the gases. The cesium gas, which is optically cooled to $20 \mu$K,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Mudrich , S. Kraft , K. Singer , R. Grimm , A. Mosk , M. Weidemuller

Laser-cooled atoms coupled to nanophotonic structures constitute a powerful research platform for the exploration of new regimes of light-matter interaction. While the initialization of the atomic internal degrees of freedom in these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Y. Meng , A. Dareau , P. Schneeweiss , A. Rauschenbeutel

Laser cooling of rare-earth doped solids has been demonstrated across a wide range of material platforms, inspiring the development of simple phenomenological models such as the four-level model to elucidate the universal properties of…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-24 Weiliang Jin , Cheng Guo , Meir Orenstein , Shanhui Fan

A new scheme of three-dimensional (3D) all-optical (nonmagnetic) cooling and trapping of resonant atoms, based on using of so-called rectified radiation forces in non-monochromatic light fields is presented. It can be applied to the atoms…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-17 I. V. Krasnov

Trapping lithium with a big number in a simplified experimental setup has difficulties and challenges today. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate the enhancement of \textsuperscript{6}Li trapping efficiency in a three-dimensional…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Kai Li , Dongfang Zhang , Tianyou Gao , Shi-Guo Peng , Kaijun Jiang

We present a robust and fast laser cooling scheme suitable for trapped atoms and ions. Based on quantum interference, generated by a special laser configuration, it is able to rapidly cool the system such that the final phonon occupation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 J. Cerrillo , A. Retzker , M. B. Plenio

The intercombination line of Strontium at 689nm is successfully used in laser cooling to reach the photon recoil limit with Doppler cooling in a magneto-optical traps (MOT). In this paper we present a systematic study of the loading…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Thierry Chaneliere , Ling Xiang He , Robin Kaiser , David Wilkowski

The resonant laser cooling of circular accelerator beams of relativistic charged particle is studied. It is shown that in the approximation of the given external electromagnetic wave amplitude (small gain free electron laser) the emittance…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. V. Tumanian

We realize laser cooling and trapping of titanium (Ti) atoms in a mangeto-optical trap (MOT). While Ti does not possess a transition suitable for laser cooling out of its $\mathrm{3d^24s^2}$ $\mathrm{a^3F}$ ground term, there is such a…

We present a combined computational and experimental study to optimize the efficiency of evaporative cooling for atoms in optical dipole traps. By employing a kinetic model of evaporation, we provide a strategy for determining the optimal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-21 Abraham J. Olson , Robert J. Niffenegger , Yong P. Chen

We perform a quantitative analysis of the cooling dynamics of three-level atomic systems interacting with two distinct lasers. Employing sparse-matrix techniques, we find numerical solutions to the fully quantized master equation in steady…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Josh W. Dunn , J. W. Thomsen , Chris H. Greene , Flavio C. Cruz