Light forces
Revision as of 01:09, 9 April 2009 by imported>Ketterle
- 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)
- Applications of the spontaneous light force
- 2009 Class notes
- Original paper on optical molasses, Chu et al.
- [Original paper on MOT, Raab et al.]
- Original papers on optical Earnshaw theorem
- [Ashkin and Gordon]
- [Pritchard et al.]
- 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)
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
- (Nice summary on both dipole traps and radiation pressure traps)
- Reading: pp. 316-335 of the paper which was already used in lecture 1
