Laser cooling and trapping of single krypton atoms

Hidetoshi Katori, Fujio Shimizu

The laser cooling and trapping of argon and krypton isotopes in the 1s5 metastable state are demonstrated using stabilized diode lasers. Even isotopes of krypton are separately trapped by tuning the laser frequency. For Ar and 84Kr, approximately 6×105 and 1×105 atoms are trapped, respectively.

Philip H. Jones, Onofrio M. Maragò, Giovanni Volpe

Prateek Gupta

Laser cooling and trapping of atoms for neutral atom computing

Prateek Gupta

Laser cooling and trapping of atoms for neutral atom computing

Caitlin Montcrieffe

ProgressWe strive to cool and trap metastable, krypton atoms while utilizing velocity mapped ion imaging (VMII) to detect the atoms.As a first step, we are investigating the influence of our cooling laser (811 nm) on the krypton velocity distribution.To do this, three lasers are used to prepare and ionize our krypton sample; the ions are subsequently detected by the velocity mapped ion imaging.

Steven Chu, Carl Wieman