Laser-driven Sisyphus cooling in an optical dipole trap

Details Laser-driven Sisyphus cooling in an optical dipole trap Laser-driven Sisyphus cooling in an optical dipole trap

2011-10-15

arxiv.org/abs/1110.3439v2

Phys. Rev. A 84, 063417 (2011)

Physics

Atomic Physics

9 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

We propose a novel Sisyphus cooling scheme for atoms confined in a far off resonance optical dipole trap. Utilizing the differential trap-induced AC Stark shift, two electronic levels of the atom are resonantly coupled by a cooling laser preferentially near the trap bottom. After absorption of a cooling photon, the atom loses energy by climbing the steeper potential, and then spontaneously decays preferentially away from the trap bottom. The proposed method is particularly suited to cooling alkaline-earth-like atoms where two-level systems with narrow electronic transitions are present. Numerical simulations for the cases of $^{88}$Sr and $^{174}$Yb demonstrate the expected recoil and Doppler temperature limits. The method requires a relatively small number of scattered photons and can potentially lead to phase space densities approaching quantum degeneracy in sub-second timescales.

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