Sub-Doppler magneto-optical trap for calcium

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2002
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  • We explore an efficient method for preparing large samples of ultracold calcium atoms. An optimized conventional (Doppler-limited) magneto-optical trap collects atoms from a Zeeman cooled atomic beam using a strong dipole transition within the singlet system. This transition is not completely closed thus yielding an intense flux of atoms into the metastable triplet state 3P2. A second magneto-optical trap sharing the same magnetic-field gradient is superimposed which captures and further cools the metastables using the narrow-band infrared transition 3P2⃗3D3. In our present experiment we were able to prepare 3×108 atoms at temperatures below 20 microkelvin within 250 ms. Minor technical improvements of our setup promise to yield above 1010 atoms at submicrokelvin temperatures within 1 s.
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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