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Narrow-Line Doppler Cooling of Strontium to the Recoil Limit

Published

Author(s)

K R. Vogel, Tim P. Dinneen, Alan Gallagher, J L. Hall

Abstract

Experimental results on narrow line cooling line cooling of strontium atoms are presented. Doppler cooling is performed on the 1So-3P1 intercombination transition at 689 nm resulting in temperatures near the recoil limit in a one-dimensional (1-D) optical molasses. Frequency chirp cooling is successfully demonstrated as a means of expanding the cooling range.
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Volume
48
Issue
No. 2

Keywords

alkaline earths, frequency metrology, laser cooling, laser trapping

Citation

Vogel, K. , Dinneen, T. , Gallagher, A. and Hall, J. (1999), Narrow-Line Doppler Cooling of Strontium to the Recoil Limit, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (Accessed November 29, 2023)
Created April 1, 1999, Updated February 17, 2017