Velocity-selected molecular pulses produced by an electric guide

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2010-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/1004.0968v2

Phys. Rev. A 82, 013410 (2010)

Physics

Chemical Physics

8 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.82.013410

Electrostatic velocity filtering is a technique for the production of continuous guided beams of slow polar molecules from a thermal gas. We extended this technique to produce pulses of slow molecules with a narrow velocity distribution around a tunable velocity. The pulses are generated by sequentially switching the voltages on adjacent segments of an electric quadrupole guide synchronously with the molecules propagating at the desired velocity. This technique is demonstrated for deuterated ammonia (ND$_{3}$), delivering pulses with a velocity in the range of $20-100\,\rm{m/s}$ and a relative velocity spread of $(16\pm 2)\,%$ at FWHM. At velocities around $60\,\rm{m/s}$, the pulses contain up to $10^6$ molecules each. The data are well reproduced by Monte-Carlo simulations, which provide useful insight into the mechanisms of velocity selection.

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