Loading a vapor-cell magneto-optic trap using light-induced atom desorption

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 023404-023401

  Anderson, B P ^a,b   Kasevich, M A ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESORPTION; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; PARTIAL PRESSURE;

MAGNETOOPTIC TRAPS (MOT);

ELECTRON TRAPS;

EID: 0035251301     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.023404     Document Type: Article

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