Continuous loading of cold atoms into a Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap

Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  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

Cold atoms; Continuous loading; Laser cooling; Magnetic trapping; Optical cooling of atoms

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CHROMIUM; COOLING; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CHROMIUM ATOMS; COLD ATOMS; INELASTIC COLLISIONS; IOFFE-PRITCHARD MAGNETIC TRAP; LASER COOLING; MAGNETIC TRAPPING; MAGNETOOPTICAL TRAP; OPTICAL COOLING;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0038060506     PISSN: 14644266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4266/5/2/376     Document Type: Article

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