Hemmerling, M. and Robb, G. R. M. (2011) Cavity cooling using intense blue-detuned light. Journal of Modern Optics, 58 (15). pp. 1336-1341. ISSN 0950-0340
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We investigate the possibility of cooling an atomic gas enclosed in an optical cavity using blue-detuned laser light of sufficient intensity that excitation of the atoms cannot be neglected. We consider an ensemble of two-level atoms confined inside a simple Fabry-Perot cavity in two different geometric configurations: in one ('cavity-pump' configuration) the pump field is directed along the cavity axis and in the other ('atom-pump' configuration) the pump field is directed perpendicular to the cavity axis. Numerical simulations of the semi-classical models for each configuration are compared. Both configurations demonstrate cooling using a blue-detuned pump field. It is shown that in the cavity-pump configuration there is no collective enhancement of the cooling rate over that of free space blue-cooling. In contrast, the atom-pump configuration demonstrates collective enhancement of the cooling rate and intracavity field intensity.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 33750 |
| Keywords: | cavity cooling, collective, superradiance, atoms, Optics. Light |
| Subjects: | Science > Physics > Optics. Light |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Physics |
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| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2011 12:40 |
| Last modified: | 12 Mar 2012 11:34 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/33750 |
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