Laser-noise-induced heating in far-off resonance optical traps
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 56 (2) , R1095-R1098
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.56.r1095
Abstract
Using a simple model, we calculate the heating rates arising from laser intensity noise and beam-pointing fluctuations in far-off resonance optical traps. Intensity noise causes exponential heating, while beam-pointing noise causes heating at a constant rate. The achievement of heating time constants well beyond 10 sec imposes stringent requirements on the laser noise power spectra. Noise spectra are measured for a commercial argon-ion laser to illustrate the expected time scales.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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