Laser slowing of CaF molecules to near the capture velocity of a molecular MOT

Hemmerling, Boerge and Chae, Eunmi and Ravi, Aakash and Anderegg, Loic and Drayna, Garrett K. and Hutzler, Nicholas R. and Collopy, Alejandra L. and Ye, Jun and Ketterle, Wolfgang and Doyle, John M. (2016) Laser slowing of CaF molecules to near the capture velocity of a molecular MOT. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 49 (17). Art. No. 174001. ISSN 0953-4075. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/49/17/174001. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170831-080322847

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Abstract

Laser slowing of CaF molecules down to the capture velocity of a magneto-optical trap for molecules is achieved. Starting from a two-stage buffer gas beam source, we apply frequency-broadened 'white-light' slowing and observe approximately 6 x 10^4 CaF molecules in a single pulse with velocities 10 ± 4 m s^(−1). CaF is a candidate for collisional studies in the mK regime. This work represents a significant step towards magneto-optical trapping of CaF.

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https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/49/17/174001	DOI	Article
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-4075/49/17/174001/meta	Publisher	Article
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02787	arXiv	Discussion Paper

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Author	ORCID
Hemmerling, Boerge	0000-0002-3853-3983
Anderegg, Loic	0000-0002-4282-3369
Hutzler, Nicholas R.	0000-0002-5203-3635
Ye, Jun	0000-0003-0076-2112

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© 2016 IOP Publishing. Received 8 March 2016 Accepted 16 June 2016 Published 10 August 2016 We thank Benjamin Augenbraun for proofreading the manuscript. We acknowledge funding support from ARO and NSF.

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Funding Agency	Grant Number
Army Research Office (ARO)	UNSPECIFIED
NSF	UNSPECIFIED

Subject Keywords:

laser slowing of molecules, molecular magneto-optical trap, white-light slowing, cryogenic buffer-gas beam source

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10.1088/0953-4075/49/17/174001

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CaltechAUTHORS:20170831-080322847

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Boerge Hemmerling et al 2016 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 49 174001

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