Reabsorption of Light by Trapped Atoms
- 15 June 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (24) , 5305-5308
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.5305
Abstract
We investigate the effect of reabsorption of photons in laser cooling of trapped atoms, in view of a possible achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation by purely optical means. Reabsorption can be strongly suppressed by using strongly deformed traps and by reducing the fluorescence rate to a value smaller than the trap frequencies.Keywords
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