Cooling and trapping of atomic strontium

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 968-976

  Xu, Xinye ^a   Loftus, Thomas H ^a   Hall, John L ^a   Gallagher, Alan ^a   Ye, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DOPPLER EFFECT; EVAPORATION; FERMIONS; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM THEORY; STRONTIUM;

DOPPLER COOLING;

ALKALINE EARTH METALS;

EID: 0037565071     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.000968     Document Type: Article

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