Two-photon cooling of calcium atoms
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| author | Adamczyk, Wojciech Koch, Silvan Politi, Claudia Passagem, Henry Fernandes Fischer, Christoph Filippov, Pavel Berterottière, Florence Kienzler, Daniel Home, Jonathan |
| author_facet | Adamczyk, Wojciech Koch, Silvan Politi, Claudia Passagem, Henry Fernandes Fischer, Christoph Filippov, Pavel Berterottière, Florence Kienzler, Daniel Home, Jonathan |
| contents | We demonstrate sub-Doppler cooling of calcium atoms using a two-photon transition from the ${^1}S_0$ ground state to the upper $4s5s~{^1}S_0$ state via the ${^1}P_1$ intermediate state. We achieve temperatures as low as $260~μ\text{K}$ in a magneto-optical trap (MOT), well below the Doppler limit ($T_{\text{D}} = 0.8~\text{mK}$) of the ${^1}P_1$ state. We characterize temperature, lifetime and confinement of the MOT over a range of experimental parameters, observing no reduction in lifetime due to coupling to the higher state. We perform theoretical simulations of the cooling scheme and observe good agreement with the experimental results. The two-photon cooling scheme presented in this work provides an alternative to the standard Doppler cooling applied to alkaline-earth atoms, based on a sequence of two magneto-optical traps. The advantages of our scheme are the possibility of varying the effective linewidth of the ${^1}P_1$ state, a higher transfer efficiency (close to 100$\%$), and a more straightforward experimental implementation. |
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| spellingShingle | Two-photon cooling of calcium atoms Adamczyk, Wojciech Koch, Silvan Politi, Claudia Passagem, Henry Fernandes Fischer, Christoph Filippov, Pavel Berterottière, Florence Kienzler, Daniel Home, Jonathan Atomic Physics Quantum Gases We demonstrate sub-Doppler cooling of calcium atoms using a two-photon transition from the ${^1}S_0$ ground state to the upper $4s5s~{^1}S_0$ state via the ${^1}P_1$ intermediate state. We achieve temperatures as low as $260~μ\text{K}$ in a magneto-optical trap (MOT), well below the Doppler limit ($T_{\text{D}} = 0.8~\text{mK}$) of the ${^1}P_1$ state. We characterize temperature, lifetime and confinement of the MOT over a range of experimental parameters, observing no reduction in lifetime due to coupling to the higher state. We perform theoretical simulations of the cooling scheme and observe good agreement with the experimental results. The two-photon cooling scheme presented in this work provides an alternative to the standard Doppler cooling applied to alkaline-earth atoms, based on a sequence of two magneto-optical traps. The advantages of our scheme are the possibility of varying the effective linewidth of the ${^1}P_1$ state, a higher transfer efficiency (close to 100$\%$), and a more straightforward experimental implementation. |
| title | Two-photon cooling of calcium atoms |
| topic | Atomic Physics Quantum Gases |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16402 |