Doppler cooling to the recoil limit by means of sharp atomic transitions with controlled quenching

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 931-936

  Zehnlé, Véronique ^a   Claude Garreau, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; PHOTONS; QUENCHING; STRONTIUM; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DOPPLER COOLING;

DOPPLER EFFECT;

EID: 0038512489     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.000931     Document Type: Article

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