https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170028
Temperature and spatial diffusion of atoms cooled in a 3D lin⊥lin bright optical lattice
Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel (Unité Mixte de Recherche de l'École
Normale Supérieure et de l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie associée au
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).) , Département de Physique de l'École
Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231, Paris cedex 05, France
Corresponding author: a Ferruccio.Renzoni@lkb.ens.fr
Received:
5
July
2001
Revised:
13
August
2001
Published online: 15 November 2001
We present a detailed experimental study of a three-dimensional
lin
lin bright optical lattice.
Measurements of the atomic temperature and spatial diffusion coefficients
are reported for different angles between the lattice beams, i.e. for
different lattice constants. The experimental findings are interpreted
with the help of numerical simulations. In particular we show, both
experimentally and theoretically, that the temperature is independent of
the lattice constant.
PACS: 32.80.Pj – Optical cooling of atoms; trapping / 42.65.Dr – Stimulated Raman scattering; CARS / 42.65.Es – Stimulated Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2001
