Laser Technology
Collimation of chromium atomic beam by means of 1-D Doppler laser
Tongbao Li
Abstract
In order to study how the collimation of chromium ( Cr) atomic by means of 1-D Doppler laser varying with laser power,laser detuning and interaction length after pre-collimation,the correlation between the coUimation and laser parameters was obtained after simulation with the fourth-order Runge-Kutta type algorithm at an adaptive step size. The results show that after precollimated by a slit in 5mm long,600mm far away from the downstream,the best collimation results can be obtained at laser power of 20mW,laser detuning of -0.5.Γ (Γ is the natural line-width of Cr) ,and twice of the minimum interaction zone.