Optical pumping of trapped neutral molecules by blackbody radiation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

  Hoekstra, Steven ^a   Gilijamse, Joop J ^a   Sartakov, Boris ^a,b   Vanhaecke, Nicolas ^a,c   Scharfenberg, Ludwig ^a   Van De Meerakker, Sebastiaan Y T ^a   Meijer, Gerard ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRAPS; EXCITED STATES; RADIATION;

BLACKBODY RADIATION; OD RADICALS; TRAPPING TIME;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 34047190732     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.133001     Document Type: Article

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