Laser Cooling of a Neon Atomic Beam in Metastable States
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 26 (11A), L1847
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.26.l1847
Abstract
A neon atomic beam in the 1s5 (J=2) metastable level is cooled by a counterpropagating laser beam using 1s5-2p9 transition. By transferring the 1s5 population to the 1s3 (J=0) metastable level using the optical pumping through 2p2, a cooled 1s3 beam is also generated.Keywords
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