Three Dimensional Raman Cooling using Velocity Selective Rapid Adiabatic Passage

Details Three Dimensional Raman Cooling using Velocity Selective Rapid Adiabatic Passage Three Dimensional Raman Cooling using Velocity Selective Rapid Adiabatic Passage

2011-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/1109.5237v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

OSA TOPS on Ultracold Atoms and BEC 7 (1997) 58

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We present a new and efficient implementation of Raman cooling of trapped atoms. It uses Raman pulses with an appropriate frequency chirp to realize a velocity selective excitation through a rapid adiabatic passage. This method allows to address in a single pulse a large number of non zero atomic velocity classes and it produces a nearly unity transfer efficiency. We demonstrate this cooling method using cesium atoms in a far-detuned crossed dipole trap. Three-dimensional cooling of $1 \times 10^{5}$ atoms down to $2 \mu$K is performed in 100 ms. In this preliminary experiment the final atomic density is $1.3\times 10^{12}$ at/cm$^3$ (within a factor of 2) and the phase-space density increase over the uncooled sample is 20. Numerical simulations indicate that temperatures below the single photon recoil temperature should be achievable with this method.

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