Dipole traps with mode-locked lasers |
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Authors: | RBM Clarke T Graf E Riis |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physics and Applied Physics, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, G4 0NG, Scotland, UK (Fax: +44-0141/552-2891, Email: roger.clarke@strath.ac.uk), UK |
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Abstract: | We investigate the properties of two separate dipole traps, realised using a cw mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser and a cw mode-locked
Nd:YVO4 laser, red-detuned by 25 nm and 284 nm, respectively. Approximately 103 laser-cooled 85Rb atoms were confined in the traps at ≈50 μK, with no observable heating after initial loading. The lifetimes of the traps
were consistent with limitations imposed by wavelength-dependent photoassociation losses and collisions with background vapour.
Determination of the ac Stark shift of the 780 nm cooling transition using a weak probe beam showed no observable difference
between using narrow-bandwidth or mode-locked trapping light. Techniques for trapping and focusing of atoms based on the dipole
force of blue and uv light become much more accessible through efficient doubling, tripling and quadrupling of mode-locked
sources. This opens up the possibility of manipulating more technologically interesting species.
Received: 30 September 1999 / Revised version: 21 December 1999 / Published online: 24 March 2000 |
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Keywords: | PACS: 32 80 Pj 32 80 Lg 32 60 +i |
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