Optical collimation and compression of a thermal atomic beam
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 80 (1) , 8-14
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.362774
Abstract
We have performed an experiment to optically cool and compress a thermal beam of sodium atoms by employing a two‐dimensional version of a magneto‐optical trap. The beam compressor employs a tapered transverse magnetic field gradient formed by four pairs of permanent magnets. We measure the efficiency of collimation and compression as function of longitudinal velocity group.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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