Velocity-selective resonances and sub-Doppler laser cooling
- 26 August 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 67 (9) , 1094-1097
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.67.1094
Abstract
We describe several one-dimensional sub-Doppler laser-cooling experiments that cool Rb to finite and zero velocities in a magnetic field and polarization gradients. We then present a physical picture that unifies these measurements in terms of coherent two-photon velocity-selective resonances between atomic ground-state sublevels (including Raman resonances). We propose several sub-Doppler cooling schemes without fields or without polarization gradients, based on VSR between nondegenerate ground states.Keywords
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