Deceleration of a calcium atomic beam with a frequency-doubled diode laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2540-2544

  Woehl, Germano ^a,b   Garcia, Guilherme De Andrade ^a   Cruz, Flavio Caldas ^a   Pereira, Daniel ^a   Scalabrin, Artemio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS   (Brazil)

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EID: 0007602315     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002540     Document Type: Article

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