Light forces
Revision as of 20:41, 15 April 2009 by imported>Ichuang
- 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)
- Optical Molasses
- Beam Slowing
- Magneto-Optical Traps
- References:
- Molasses, beam slowing and MOT:
- 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)
