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Despite the improved brightness of nozzle beams over simple effusive atom sources, further intensification is immensely helpful. Laser cooling offers one of very few approaches to true brightening of an atom ensemble. Because we eventually want only one magnetic species, optical pumping is also quite helpful. The discussion in this chapter loosely follows that of Metcalf in [1].
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Gardner, J.R. (2018). Cooling and Pumping. In: Neutral Atom Imaging Using a Pulsed Electromagnetic Lens. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68430-7_3
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