Narrow-line Doppler cooling of strontium to the recoil limit

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 618-621

  Vogel, Kurt R ^a   Dinneen, Timothy P ^a   Gallagher, Alan ^b   Hall, John L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaline earths; Frequency metrology; Laser cooling; Laser trapping; Strontium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010752989     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.769671     Document Type: Article

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