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* [[Applications of the spontaneous light force]] | * [[Applications of the spontaneous light force]] | ||
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| + | ** [[Magneto-Optical Traps]] | ||
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** Molasses, beam slowing and MOT: [https://cua-admin.mit.edu:8443/wiki/images/a/aa/2009-04-08-Applications_of_spontaneous_force.pdf 2009 Class notes] | ** Molasses, beam slowing and MOT: [https://cua-admin.mit.edu:8443/wiki/images/a/aa/2009-04-08-Applications_of_spontaneous_force.pdf 2009 Class notes] | ||
** Nice summary on both dipole traps and radiation pressure traps | ** Nice summary on both dipole traps and radiation pressure traps | ||
Revision as of 20:40, 15 April 2009
- Light forces from steady-state solutions
- 2009 Class notes
- see API pp. 370 - 378
- Further reading on friction force in a standing wave (not covered in class)
- C. Cohen-Tannoudji, Les Houches 1990, pp. 34-35
- J.P. Gordon and A. Ashkin, PRA 21, 1606 (1980)
- References:
- Molasses, beam slowing and MOT: 2009 Class notes
- 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 paper on optical molasses, Chu et al.
- Original paper on MOT, Raab et al.
- Original papers on optical Earnshaw theorem
- Dipole forces and the dressed atom picture
- see API Chapter VI – worth reading!
- Important paper: J. Dalibard and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Opt. Soc. Am .B 2, 1707 (1985)
