Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1994

Citation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B (April 1994) 11(4): 537-541. PACS numbers: 32.80.Pj, 42.50.Vk.

Comments

Copyright 1994, Optical Society of America. Used by permission.

Abstract

Sub-Doppler laser cooling requires optical pumping among differently light-shifted ground-state sublevels. We describe a study of the simplest possible angular-momentum configuration that permits all sub-Doppler cooling phenomena. The Jg = 1 ⟹ Je = 0 angular-momentum configuration shows recoil-limited cooling in the two most well-known types of polarization gradient, magnetically induced laser cooling, velocity-selective resonances, transient cooling, and velocity-selective population trapping.

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