Extra-heating mechanism in Doppler cooling experiments

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1819-1828

  Chanelière, Thierry ^a   Meunier, Jean Louis ^a   Kaiser, Robin ^a   Miniatura, Christian ^a   Wilkowski, David ^a  

^a INSTITUT NON LINÉAIRE DE NICE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; GROUND STATE; HEATING; LASER APPLICATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REACTION KINETICS; STRONTIUM; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

DOPPLER COOLING; EXTRA-HEATING MECHANISM; LASER COOLING; OPTICAL COOLING DIPOLE TRANSITION; OPTICAL MOLASSES;

COOLING;

EID: 25444495916     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001819     Document Type: Article

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