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Stopping Atoms with Diode Lasers

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We have succeeded in stopping a beam of cesium atoms using frequency-chirped diode lasers. We scan over the Doppler profile of a 100℃ thermal cesium beam to bring more than 1010 atoms/s to a temperature of 1°K, a limit imposed by the 30 MHz linewidth of our free-running lasers. These results are preliminary,and we expect that further work will provide substantial improvements in our final temperature and density. This is an extremely simple and inexpensive way to produce cold atoms.

Work supported by the National Science Foundation.

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  1. Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado and National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA

    R. N. Watts & C. E. Wieman (Sloan Fellow)

  2. Department of Physics, University of Colorado, USA

    C. E. Wieman (Sloan Fellow)

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  1. Department of Physics, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, USA

    Theo W. Hänsch

  2. Department of Physics, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Yuen Ron Shen

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Watts, R.N., Wieman, C.E. (1985). Stopping Atoms with Diode Lasers. In: Hänsch, T.W., Shen, Y.R. (eds) Laser Spectroscopy VII. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39664-2_6

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