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The characteristics of a magneto-optical trap (MOT) using small-diameter cooling laser beams are considered. Trapping and cooling of Rb atoms from the surrounding gas of warm atoms takes place in the trap. A compact (140 μm) and stable atomic cloud is obtained with a density of 7 × 1010 cm−3, which is three orders of magnitude higher than the density of the surrounding gas.
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Translated from Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, Vol. 127, No. 5, 2005, pp. 1035–1045.
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Chapovsky, P.L. Compact magneto-optical trap for rubidium atoms. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 100, 911–919 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1947315
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