Optical pumping and vibrational cooling of molecules

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5886, 2008, Pages 232-234

  Viteau, Matthieu ^a   Chotia, Amodsen ^a   Allegrini, Maria ^a,b   Bouloufa, Nadia ^a   Dulieu, Olivier ^a   Comparat, Daniel ^a   Pillet, Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM;

COOLING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EMISSION; OPTICAL PROPERTY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ENERGY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; VALIDITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 47249122243     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1159496     Document Type: Article

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27. We thank T. F. Gallagher for helpful discussions during the redaction of this article and acknowledge fruitful debates with F. Masnou-Seeuws, E. Luc-Koenig, A. Crubellier, and B. Chatel about the applications at the frontier of the ultracold and ultrafast fields. M.A. thanks the EC-Network EMALI. This work is supported by the Institut Francilien de Recherche sur les Atomes Froids. The laser cooling development is performed in the frame of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche grant NTOS-2 41885 CORYMOL.