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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Laser cooling for Si atom manipulation with atomic mirror

Hiroshi Kumagai, S. Shimizu, T. Iwane, Akira Kunieda, Katsumi Midorikawa, Minoru Obara

Published Jul 15, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

Highly efficient frequency conversions were conducted to obtain a deep-ultraviolet single-mode coherent light using two-stage external cavities. 154-mW power at around 252 nm was obtained with a conversion efficiency of more than 8% by doubly resonant sum-frequency mixing of 373-nm light from the first-stage conversion and 780-nm light from a single-mode Ti:sapphire laser. The output performances of the deep-ultraviolet light source are sufficient for realizing the laser cooling of neutral silicon atoms and then their manipulation with an atomic mirror.

DOI
10.1117/12.532842

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