Stopping Atoms with Laser Light
- 11 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 54 (10) , 992-995
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.54.992
Abstract
We have produced a sample of free sodium atoms at rest in the laboratory by decelerating atoms in an atomic beam using momentum transfer from a counterpropagating, resonant laser beam. These atoms have a density of about and a velocity spread of about 15 m/s full width at half maximum corresponding to a kinetic temperature less than 100 mK.
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