Sub-Doppler laser cooling and magnetic trapping of erbium

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Berglund, Andrew J ^a   Lee, Siu Au ^b   McClelland, Jabez J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; COOLING; DOPPLER EFFECT; LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES;

FERMIONIC GASES; MAGNETIC TRAPPING; NARROW LINEWIDTH LASER COOLING; SUB-DOPPLER LASER COOLING;

ERBIUM;

EID: 36549044881     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.053418     Document Type: Article

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26. Unless otherwise noted, all uncertainties represent one standard deviation combined random and systematic uncertainty.
27. In our image analysis, we do not account for Zeeman shifts over the spatial extent of the cloud, which are expected to alter the excited state fraction by at most 7%.
28. We find good fits to the magnetic trap relaxation data of Fig. 6 for a simple model in which a fraction f of initially dark (metastable) atoms relaxes to the ground state exponentially while atoms are simultaneously lost from the trap at a second exponential rate. However, this larger number of fit parameters cannot give an independent indication of both the initial dark state fraction and the metastable relaxation rate so we have only included a fit to the long-time relaxation behavior here.