Laser Cooling of Magnesium Ions Confined in a Penning Trap
Richard Claude Thompson, G. P. Barwood, Patrick Robert Gill
The construction of a Penning ion trap is described. The trap has been used to confine clouds of magnesium ions for periods of many hours and the ions have been cooled to sub-kelvin temperatures by the method of laser cooling. Preliminary experiments with the cooled ions are reported.
Optica Acta International Journal of Optics•Apr 1, 1986•16 citations