Bichromatic magnetooptical trap for ultracold plasmas

Daniel Woodbury, Scott Bergeson, Alex Erikson

Maria Temming

Truman Wilson, Wei‐Ting Chen, Jacob Roberts

Jing Qun, Zhigang Feng, Linjie Zhang +3 more

The signals of ultracold plasma are observed by two-photon ionization of laser-cooled atom in a caesium magnetooptical trap. A simple model has been introduced to explain the creation of plasma, and the mechanism is further investigated by changing the energy of a pulsed dye laser and the number of initial cooled atoms.

I. V. Krasnov

The application of resonant light pressure in the presence of nonuniform bichromatic laser fields for the localization and control of ultracold electron-ion plasma in which the quantum transitions of ions are resonant with respect to the laser radiation is analyzed. It is demonstrated that the so-called rectified radiation forces that selectively act upon plasma ions and give rise to a dissipative optical superlattice (for ultracold plasma) whose period is significantly greater than the radiation wavelength can be used for this purpose.

Jaehoon Choi, X. Zhang, Alexander P. Povilus +1 more