Abstract
We have modeled and experimentally investigated the ‘‘Zeeman tuned slowing’’ of rubidium using polarized laser light. Previous studies have all used light. We find that important details of the slowing process enable this new method to produce significantly slower and more intense atomic beams than for the case. An additional advantage: slowing exhibits much weaker dependence on laser wavelength and intensity.
- Received 8 April 1991
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.3483
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