Light forces

• Light forces from steady-state solutions
  • 2009 Class notes
  • see API pp. 370 - 378
  • Further reading on friction force in a standing wave
    • 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
  • https://cua-admin.mit.edu:8443/wiki/images/a/aa/2009-04-08-Applications_of_spontaneous_force.pdf 2009 Class notes]
• Dipole forces and the dressed atom picture

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  Introduction to Atomic Physics

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  Optical Bloch equations

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  Frontiers in Atomic Physics

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2007 Handouts

• The dressed atom approach
  • Reading: API Chapter VI – worth reading!

• • Lecture notes
  • Important paper: J. Dalibard and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Opt. Soc. Am .B 2, 1707 (1985)
• 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.