Laser Manipulation of Atoms and Ions : Proceedings of the Intl. School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Course CXVIII, July 9-19, 1991

by Arimondo, E.; Phillips, William D.; Strumia, F.

• ISBN13: 9780444899934
• ISBN10: 0444899936
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-04-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd

Summary

The recent fascinating progress on laser cooling is the result of the close connection between theoretical work and the rapid technological advances in laser sources, particularly in the field of powerful semiconductor and solid-state lasers operating over a wide range of optical and near-infrared frequencies. The very close international and personal collaboration amongst the researchers resulting in a direct link between experimental data and theoretical calculations which characterize work in this field, have been important factors in the rapid comprehension of the subtle and beautiful phenomena involved in laser manipulation. This Enrico Fermi school is the first formal school fully devoted to this topic. The theoretical part of the book includes contributions on the framework for the study of the photon momentum exchanges in the absence of relaxation, recent mechanisms of laser cooling, an analysis of the cooling forces, analysis of atomic and molecular beams, cooling through coherent population trapping and the relation between laser cooling and quantum nondemolition measurements. The experimental section deals with topics such as, an analysis of atomic and molecular beams, methods and applications of laser cooling, advances in laser cooling and the new exciting field of atomic interferometry. All students and researchers working in this field will welcome this excellent review of research and progress in laser cooling, so strongly linked to the fundamental understanding of physics.

Table of Contents

Preface

Gruppo fotografico dei partecipanti al Corso

Beams of atoms and molecules

Momentum exchange between matter and light

Quantum effects in atomic optics

New laser cooling mechanisms

Laser cooling configurations

Velocity-selective coherent population trapping in one and two dimensions

Coupled-pendulum model of the forces on three-level atoms

Laser cooling and manipulation of atoms, and selected applications

Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms

Search for motional quantization of laser-cooled atoms

The low (temperature) road toward Bose-Einstein condensation in optically and magnetically trapped cesium atoms

Manipulation of atoms by laser light

Laser manipulation of helium: the limits of the semi-classical description

Light manipulation of atoms

Atom traps and atom optics

Electromagnetic traps for charged and neutral particles

Laser cooling of trapped ions

High-resolution atomic spectroscopy of laser-cooled ions

Recent experiments on trapped ions at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Single-atom experiments and the test of fundamental quantum physics

Cooling elementary particles

The quantum mechanics of trapped wave packets

Laser cooling of stored beams in ASTRID

An introduction to phase-stable optical sources

Laser cooling below the Doppler limit in a magneto-optical trap

Application of laser cooling to the time and frequency metrology

Theory of ultracold atomic collisions

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