Light forces

In preparation for 2009.

Handouts

Mean radiation forces API pp. 370 - 379
- 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)
The dressed atom approach
- Reading: API Chapter VI – worth reading!
Dipole forces within the dressed atom picture
- 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.