Laser cooling and trapping of metastable helium atoms

Authors

  • Wilbert Rooijakkers Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Gerrit J. Kuik Department of Physics, University of San Carlos
  • Wim Vassen Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Wim Hogervorst 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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1997-10-27

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1997: Proceedings of the 15th National Physics Congress of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas

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Optics and Photonics

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How to Cite

[1]
“Laser cooling and trapping of metastable helium atoms”, Proc. SPP, vol. 15, no. 1, p. SPP-1997-OP-11, Oct. 1997, Accessed: Mar. 24, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-1997-OP-11