Sub-Doppler laser cooling of 40K with Raman gray molasses on the D2 line
Bruce, G D and Haller, E and Peaudecerf, B and Cotta, D A and Andia, M and Wu, S and Johnson, M Y H and Lovett, B W and Kuhr, S (2017) Sub-Doppler laser cooling of 40K with Raman gray molasses on the D2 line. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 50 (9). 095002. ISSN 0953-4075
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Abstract
Gray molasses is a powerful tool for sub-Doppler laser cooling of atoms to low temperatures. For alkaline atoms, this technique is commonly implemented with cooling lasers which are blue-detuned from either the D1 or D2 line. Here we show that efficient gray molasses can be implemented on the D2 line of 40K with red-detuned lasers. We obtained temperatures of 48(2) µK, which enables direct loading of 9.2(3)x10^6 atoms from a magneto-optical trap into an optical dipole trap. We support our findings by a one-dimensional model and three-dimensional numerical simulations of the optical Bloch equations which qualitatively reproduce the experimentally observed cooling effects.
Author(s): | Bruce, G D, Haller, E ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 60345 |
Keywords: | gray molasses, laser cooling, ultracold atoms, atomic physics, sub-Doppler cooling, Physics, Physics and Astronomy(all) |
Subjects: | Science > Physics |
Department: | Faculty of Science > Physics Strategic Research Themes > Measurement Science and Enabling Technologies |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 28 Mar 2017 15:18 |
Last modified: | 05 Dec 2019 04:43 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/60345 |
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