Abstract
We present laser cooling scheme for molecules using repeated Raman zero velocity selection, STIRAP deceleration and accumulation by single spontaneous emission which circumvents the multilevels in molecules. Smulations with OH show practicality of the scheme.
© 2010 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Laser Cooling of a Diatomic Molecule
D. DeMille, E.S. Shuman, and J.F. Barry
LThH1 Laser Science (LS) 2010
Subrecoil laser cooling: recent developments in velocity-selective coherent population trapping
F. Bardou, O. Emile, B. Saubamea, K. Shimizu, C. Westbrook, A. Aspect, and C. Cohen-Tannoudji
TuM.2 OSA Annual Meeting (FIO) 1993
A proposal for laser cooling of molecules: a sequential scheme for rotation, translation and vibration
WC Stwalley
WB2 International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) 1996