Laser cooling and trapping of metastable helium atoms

Authors

  • Wilbert Rooijakkers ⋅ NL Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Gerrit J. Kuik ⋅ PH Department of Physics, University of San Carlos
  • Wim Vassen ⋅ NL Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Wim Hogervorst ⋅ NL Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Abstract

Applications of laser cooling techniques have led to atomic traps, fountains, funnels, atomic interferometry and mirrors. In 1995 Cornell and co-workers succeeded in cooling rubidium atoms with de Broglie wavelengths comparable to the interatomic separations in a gas and created a Bose condensate in a weakly interacting gas. In the present paper cooling and trapping of metastable helium atoms is presented.

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Published

1997-10-27

How to Cite

[1]
W Rooijakkers, GJ Kuik, W Vassen, and W Hogervorst, Laser cooling and trapping of metastable helium atoms, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 15, SPP-1997-OP-11 (1997). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-1997-OP-11.