Abstract
It is experimentally demonstrated that a beam of neutral dipolar molecules can be efficiently decelerated with a time-varying electric field. A pulsed beam of neutral metastable CO molecules is slowed down from 225 m/s ( ) to 98 m/s ( ) upon passage through an array of 63 synchronously pulsed electric field stages.
- Received 19 February 1999
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1558
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