Published September 8, 2017
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Radio Frequency Magneto-Optical Trapping of CaF with High Density
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Harvard University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
Abstract
We demonstrate significantly improved magneto-optical trapping of molecules using a very slow cryogenic beam source and either rf modulated or dc magnetic fields. The rf magneto-optical trap (MOT) confines 1.0(3)×10^5 CaF molecules at a density of 7(3)×10^6 cm^(−3), which is an order of magnitude greater than previous molecular MOTs. Near Doppler-limited temperatures of 340(20) μK are attained. The achieved density enables future work to directly load optical tweezers and create optical arrays for quantum simulation.
Additional Information
© 2017 American Physical Society. Received 30 May 2017; published 6 September 2017. We acknowledge the experimental contributions of Garrett Drayna. This work was supported by the ARO, the AFOSR, and the NSF. B. L. A. acknowledges support from the NSF GRFP. We would like to thank Dave DeMille and Michael Tarbutt for helpful discussions and the Tarbutt group for confirming the v=3 repump frequency.Attached Files
Published - PhysRevLett.119.103201.pdf
Submitted - 1705.10288.pdf
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20170830-132536318
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- https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10288 (URL)
Funding
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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2017-09-05Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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