Laser Production of a Very Slow Monoenergetic Atomic Beam
- 18 October 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 49 (16) , 1149-1153
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.49.1149
Abstract
With use of a resonant, counterpropagating laser beam the velocity of atoms in a neutral, thermal-sodium beam has been reduced to 40 m/s, or 4% of their initial velocity. These atoms have a kinetic energy comparable to the well depth of proposed optical traps. The "temperature" characterizing the atoms' relative motion was reduced to 70 mK.Keywords
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