Transverse laser cooling of a velocity-selected sodium atomic beam
Dragana Milic, Maarten D. Hoogerland, K. G. H. Baldwin +1 more
The transverse velocity distribution of a sodium atomic beam, laser cooled in one dimension, has been measured with sub-recoil resolution. A velocity-selective detection system was employed to separate the longitudinal and transverse velocity components to provide a direct measure of the transverse velocity distribution. The effects of varying the cooling laser intensity and detuning on the derived transverse temperature are presented, and show a remarkable insensitivity to the laser intensity. Atomic velocities within a factor of two of the recoil velocity are
Quantum and Semiclassical Optics Journal of the European Optical Society Part B•Jun 1, 1996•7 citations