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Atom cooling by VSCPT: Accumulation plus filtering

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We study laser cooling by velocity-selective coherent population trapping (VSCPT) in a double-Λ scheme with decay beyond the working levels. We show that this additional decay channel filters diffused atoms from trapped ones and provides an ultrasharp atomic momentum distribution.

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  1. Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, 182, Japan

    Fam Le Kien

  2. Department of Physics, University of Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Fam Le Kien

  3. Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, 192, Japan

    V. I. Balykin

  4. Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142092, Troitzk, Moscow Region, Russia

    V. I. Balykin

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Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 115, 449–462 (February 1999)

Published in English in the original Russian journal. Reproduced here with stylistic changes by the Translation Editor.

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Kien, F.L., Balykin, V.I. Atom cooling by VSCPT: Accumulation plus filtering. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 88, 246–253 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.558791

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