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**  see API Chapter VI – worth reading!
 
**  see API Chapter VI – worth reading!
**    [  Important paper: J. Dalibard and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Opt. Soc. Am .B 2, 1707 (1985)]
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**    [https://cua-admin.mit.edu:8443/wiki/images/b/b7/Dali85_JOSAB.pdf   Important paper: J. Dalibard and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Opt. Soc. Am .B 2, 1707 (1985)]
  
 
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Revision as of 00:01, 9 April 2009

2007 Handouts

  • The dressed atom approach
  • Spontaneous light force traps
    • Magneto-optical trap, Optical Earnshaw theorem
    • Reading: pp. 316-335 of the paper which was already used in lecture 1
      • (Nice summary on both dipole traps and radiation pressure traps)
        • W.D. Phillips, Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms, in Laser Manipulation of Atoms and Ions, edited by E. Arimondo, W.D. Phillips, and F. Strumia, Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, Course CXVIII (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1992) Download
      • Original papers:
        • Optical Earnshaw theorem (OET): Ashkin and Gordon
        • How to circumvent the OET: Pritchard et al.
        • Realization of the MOT: Raab et al.