Journal article
Transverse laser cooling of a metastable argon beam: Dependence on the interaction time
Abstract
A pulsed metastable argon beam is transversely cooled in one dimension via the closed 4s[11/2]2o-4p[21/2]3 transition. A standing light wave, orthogonal to the atomic beam and located just at the source, provides the cooling. In all the measurements, the maximum electric field is equivalent to a Rabi frequency of ∼220 natural linewidths. The enhancement of the metastable atom flux is measured as a function of the interaction time with a …
Authors
Drewsen M; Vitanov NV; Haugen HK
Journal
Physical Review A, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 3118–3121
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Publication Date
April 1993
DOI
10.1103/physreva.47.3118
ISSN
2469-9926