A system for magnetooptical cooling and trapping of Rb atoms

Optica Applicata

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 559-567

  Kowalski, Krzysztof ^a   Dimova Arnaudova, Emiliya ^b   Fronc, Krzysztof ^a   Gateva, Sanka ^c   Głódź, Małgorzata ^a   Lis, Ludwik ^a   Petrov, Lyubomir ^c   Szonert, Jerzy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Cold Rb atoms; Instrumentation; Magnetooptical trap

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRON TRAPS; RUBIDIUM; TUNING;

FREQUENCY TUNING; MAGNETOOPTICAL COOLING;

MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS;

EID: 38549163186     PISSN: 00785466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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