Nonlinear spectroscopy and laser cooling
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 43 (3), 1470-1483
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.43.1470
Abstract
It is shown that the physical mechanisms that give rise to very narrow resonances in nonlinear spectroscopic line shapes and to laser cooling below the so-called Doppler limit are closely related. A general formalism is developed that can be applied to a wide range of problems in nonlinear spectroscopy and laser cooling. To illustrate the formalism, a calculation of the friction force associated with laser cooling is carried out for several cases of current experimental interest.Keywords
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