Cooling in a Bistable Optical Cavity

S. Nußmann

Ilya Sh. Averbukh, Mark Y. Vilensky, Yehiam Prior

We propose a generic approach for nonresonant laser cooling of atoms/molecules based on their interaction with a bistable optical cavity. The cooling mechanism is of Sisyphus type due to hysteretic character of the cavity field.

Mark Y. Vilensky, Yehiam Prior, Ilya Sh. Averbukh

We propose a generic approach for nonresonant laser cooling of atoms/molecules based on their interaction with a bistable optical cavity. The cooling mechanism is of Sisyphus type, and it does not require high-finesse cavities.

Marc Haelterman

Mark Y. Vilensky, Yehiam Prior, Ilya Sh. Averbukh

We propose a generic approach to nonresonant laser cooling of atoms and molecules in a bistable optical cavity. The method exemplifies a photonic version of Sisyphus cooling, in which the matter-dressed cavity extracts energy from the particles and discharges it to the external field as a result of sudden transitions between two stable states.

Helmut Ritsch, P. Domokos, Péter Horák +1 more