Doppler cooling of an optically dense cloud of magnetically trapped atoms

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 960-967

  Schmidt, Piet O ^a   Hensler, Sven ^a   Werner, Jörg ^a   Binhammer, Thomas ^a   Görlitz, Axel ^a   Pfau, Tilman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC);

COOLING;

EID: 0037600710     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.000960     Document Type: Article

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