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By stabilizing the beam pointing of optical trapping beams, we have succeeded in stable formation of Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) of 87Rb with all-optical method. The thermal effect of acousto-optic modulator (AOM) is usually one of the most serious problems to induce beam-pointing instability, especially for high power CO2 laser. By passing the beam through AOM twice, we have improved the beam pointing from about 4.8 mrad to less than 0.4 mrad, which has been experimentally confirmed to be small enough to stably form BEC at the crossed region of CO2 lasers as well as to perform experiments using an optical lattice which might have been affected by beam-pointing instability.
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Kobayashi, J., Izumi, Y., Kumakura, M. et al. Stable all-optical formation of Bose–Einstein condensate using pointing-stabilized optical trapping beams. Appl. Phys. B 83, 21–25 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-006-2140-2
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