Three-dimensional cavity cooling and trapping in an optical lattice

K. Murr, S. Nußmann, T. Puppe, M. Hijlkema, B. Weber, S. C. Webster, A. Kuhn, and G. Rempe
Phys. Rev. A 73, 063415 – Published 30 June 2006

Abstract

A robust scheme for trapping and cooling atoms is described. It combines a deep dipole-trap which localizes the atom in the center of a cavity with a laser directly exciting the atom. In that way one obtains three-dimensional cooling while the atom is dipole-trapped. In particular, we identify a cooling force along the large spatial modulations of the trap. A feature of this setup, with respect to a dipole trap alone, is that all cooling forces keep a constant amplitude if the trap depth is increased simultaneously with the intensity of the probe laser. No strong coupling is required, which makes such a technique experimentally attractive. Several analytical expressions for the cooling forces and heating rates are derived and interpreted by analogy to ordinary laser cooling.

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  • Received 23 March 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.063415

©2006 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

K. Murr, S. Nußmann, T. Puppe, M. Hijlkema, B. Weber, S. C. Webster, A. Kuhn*, and G. Rempe

  • Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany

  • *Present address: Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.

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Vol. 73, Iss. 6 — June 2006

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