Published February 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Cooling of rubidium atoms in pulsed diffuse laser light

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800 (China)

Description

This paper reports an experiment on laser cooling of 87Rb atoms in pulsed diffuse light, which is the key step towards a compact cold atom clock. It deduces an empirical formula to simulate the pulse cooling process based on the loading of cold atoms in cooling time and the loss in the dead time, which is in agreement with the experimental data. The formula gives a reference to select the parameters for the cold atom clock. (atomic and molecular physics)

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1674-1056/20/2/023701

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Journal Title
Chinese Physics. B
Journal Volume
20
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
[4 p.]
ISSN
1674-1056