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Towards sympathetic cooling of trapped ions with laser-cooled Mg +  ions for mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy

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Sympathetic cooling by laser cooled Mg ions has been proposed as a method for fast cooling of highly charged ions to a very low temperature. The paper describes the construction of the solid state laser system at 279.63 nm required for laser cooling of the Mg ions. The laser system is composed of a fiber laser at 1,118.54 nm and two successive second harmonic generation (SHG) ring cavities for frequency quadrupling. In the first SHG cavity, non-critical phase matching of a lithium triborate (LBO) crystal is used for doubling from 1,118.54 to 559.27 nm. The second SHG cavity uses critical phase matching of a β-barium borate (BBO) crystal for doubling from 559.27 to 279.63 nm. With the aid of Boyd–Kleinmann theory, optimum experimental parameters are calculated and used for an efficient SHG. Besides this, the paper intends to be a shortcut for practical applications of the Boyd–Kleinmann theory for SHG.

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  1. Institut für Kernchemie, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany

    Radu Cazan, Christopher Geppert & Wilfried Nörtershäuser

  2. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany

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Cazan, R., Geppert, C., Nörtershäuser, W. et al. Towards sympathetic cooling of trapped ions with laser-cooled Mg +  ions for mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy. Hyperfine Interact 196, 177–189 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-009-0144-0

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