https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2014-40389-y
Regular Article
Guided and focused slow atomic beam from a 2 dimensional magneto optical trap
Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud,
ENS Cachan, Bât.
505, 91405
Orsay,
France
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e-mail: bruneau.yoann@gmail.com
Received:
4
July
2013
Received in final form:
7
November
2013
Published online:
23
April
2014
We report experimental results which demonstrate how a single laser can be used to both accelerate and guide caesium atoms initially trapped in a two dimensional magneto-optical trap (2D-MOT). The atomic beam size and velocity can be modified using both the laser power and detuning as parameters. In particular, using a 750 mW laser detuned 10 GHz from resonance, we demonstrate that it is possible to focus an atomic beam to a size of 0.4 mm as far as 60 cm from the output of the 2D-MOT with a flux on the order of 3 × 109 atoms/s.
Key words: Cold Matter and Quantum Gas
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