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**          [https://cua-admin.mit.edu:8443/wiki/images/8/88/2009-04-06-Light_Forces.pdf 2009 Class notes]
 
**          [https://cua-admin.mit.edu:8443/wiki/images/8/88/2009-04-06-Light_Forces.pdf 2009 Class notes]
 
**  see  API pp. 370 - 378
 
**  see  API pp. 370 - 378
** Further reading on friction force in a standing wave
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** Further reading on friction force in a standing wave (not covered in class)
 
*** C. Cohen-Tannoudji, Les Houches 1990, pp. 34-35
 
*** C. Cohen-Tannoudji, Les Houches 1990, pp. 34-35
 
*** J.P. Gordon and A. Ashkin, PRA 21, 1606 (1980)
 
*** J.P. Gordon and A. Ashkin, PRA 21, 1606 (1980)
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* [[Applications of the spontaneous light force]]
 
* [[Applications of the spontaneous light force]]
 
**          [https://cua-admin.mit.edu:8443/wiki/images/a/aa/2009-04-08-Applications_of_spontaneous_force.pdf  2009 Class notes]
 
**          [https://cua-admin.mit.edu:8443/wiki/images/a/aa/2009-04-08-Applications_of_spontaneous_force.pdf  2009 Class notes]
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** [Original paper on optical molasses, Chu et al.]
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** [Original paper on MOT, Raab et al.]
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** Original papers on optical Earnshaw theorem
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*** [Ashkin and Gordon]
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*** [Pritchard et al.]
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* [[Dipole forces and the dressed atom picture]]
 
* [[Dipole forces and the dressed atom picture]]
 
**  see API Chapter VI – worth reading!
 
**  see API Chapter VI – worth reading!
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== 2007 Handouts ==
 
== 2007 Handouts ==
* The dressed atom approach
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* Spontaneous light force traps
 
** Magneto-optical trap, Optical Earnshaw theorem
 
 
** Reading:  pp. 316-335 of the paper which was already used in lecture 1
 
** Reading:  pp. 316-335 of the paper which was already used in lecture 1
 
***            (Nice summary on both dipole traps and radiation pressure traps)
 
***            (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
 
**** 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:
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****            Optical Earnshaw theorem (OET):  Ashkin and Gordon
 
****            How to circumvent the OET:  Pritchard et al.
 
****            Realization of the MOT:  Raab et al.
 
  
 
[[Category:8.422|5]]
 
[[Category:8.422|5]]

Revision as of 01:08, 9 April 2009



2007 Handouts

    • 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