https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2016-70336-9
Regular Article
Resonance fluorescence of a laser-cooled atom in a non-harmonic potential
1 Theoretische Physik, Universität des
Saarlandes, 66123
Saarbrücken,
Germany
2 Hohenzollern Gymnasium,
72488
Sigmaringen,
Germany
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e-mail: ralf.betzholz@physik.uni-saarland.de
Received:
19
May
2016
Received in final form:
9
August
2016
Published online:
20
October
2016
We investigate a single laser driven atom trapped in a non-harmonic potential. We present the performance of ground-state laser cooling and Doppler cooling and the signatures of the center-of-mass motion in the power spectrum of the scattered light. In order to illustrate the results we provide two explicit examples for the confining potential: the infinite square well and the Morse potential.
Key words: Quantum Optics
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