Abstract
In laser manipulation of atoms, producing a dense and spatially localized source of atoms is of great interest for a number of applications. We have experimentally demonstrated that the combination of both cooling with a gray molasses,1 and trapping in a nondissipative trap, coming from a far-detuned focused laser beam,2 leads to a rod-shaped atom cloud with a very small transverse width (σ = 7 µm).
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