Cavity-Induced Atom Cooling in the Strong Coupling Regime
- 22 December 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 79 (25) , 4974-4977
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.4974
Abstract
We investigate the possibility of all optical trapping and cooling a single atom at the antinodes of a high optical cavity mode to which the atom is strongly coupled. For properly chosen parameters the dynamics of the cavity field introduces a novel Sisyphus type cooling mechanism yielding final temperatures much below the Doppler limit and allowing for long trapping times, avoiding the problems induced by spontaneous emission.
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