Advanced switching schemes in a Stark decelerator

Dongdong Zhang, Gerard Meijer, and Nicolas Vanhaecke
Phys. Rev. A 93, 023408 – Published 8 February 2016

Abstract

We revisit the operation of the Stark decelerator and present an optimized operation scheme, which substantially improves the efficiency of the decelerator at both low and high final velocities, relevant for trapping experiments and collision experiments, respectively. Both experimental and simulation results show that this mode of operation outperforms the schemes which have hitherto been in use. This mode of operation could potentially be extended to other deceleration techniques.

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  • Received 28 December 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.023408

©2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

Dongdong Zhang1,*, Gerard Meijer1,†, and Nicolas Vanhaecke1,2,‡

  • 1Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
  • 2Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, ENS Cachan, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France

  • *Present address: Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; dongdong.zhang@unibas.ch
  • Present address: Radboud University Nijmegen, 6265 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • Present address: European Patent Office, Patentlaan 2, 2288 EE Rijswijk, The Netherlands.

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Vol. 93, Iss. 2 — February 2016

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