中国物理B ›› 2011, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (2): 23701-023701.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/20/2/023701

• ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS • 上一篇    下一篇

Cooling of rubidium atoms in pulsed diffuse laser light

成华东, 王旭成, 肖玲, 张文卓, 刘亮, 王育竹   

  1. Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 收稿日期:2010-04-12 修回日期:2010-08-12 出版日期:2011-02-15 发布日期:2011-02-15
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10604057 and 10874193), the National High-Tech Programme (Grant No. 2006AA12Z311) and the National Basic Research Programme of China (Grant No. 2005CB724506).

Cooling of rubidium atoms in pulsed diffuse laser light

Cheng Hua-Dong(成华东), Wang Xu-Cheng(王旭成), Xiao Ling(肖玲), Zhang Wen-Zhuo(张文卓), Liu Liang(刘亮)†, and Wang Yu-Zhu(王育竹)   

  1. Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • Received:2010-04-12 Revised:2010-08-12 Online:2011-02-15 Published:2011-02-15
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10604057 and 10874193), the National High-Tech Programme (Grant No. 2006AA12Z311) and the National Basic Research Programme of China (Grant No. 2005CB724506).

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摘要： This paper reports an experiment on laser cooling of 87Rb atoms in pulsed diffuse light, which is the key step towards a compact cold atom clock. It deduces an empirical formula to simulate the pulse cooling process based on the loading of cold atoms in cooling time and the loss in the dead time, which is in agreement with the experimental data. The formula gives a reference to select the parameters for the cold atom clock.

Abstract: This paper reports an experiment on laser cooling of 87Rb atoms in pulsed diffuse light, which is the key step towards a compact cold atom clock. It deduces an empirical formula to simulate the pulse cooling process based on the loading of cold atoms in cooling time and the loss in the dead time, which is in agreement with the experimental data. The formula gives a reference to select the parameters for the cold atom clock.

Key words: diffuse light, pulsed cooling, rubidium, atom clock

中图分类号:  (Atom cooling methods)

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42.50.Ct (Quantum description of interaction of light and matter; related experiments) 42.62.Fi (Laser spectroscopy)