We study the resonant interaction of a beam of two-level atoms with two counter-propagating frequency-chirped lasers, showing that the bistable response of the atomic deceleration to the sweeping rate gives origin to a double-peaked pseudo-stationary (PS) velocity distribution that lasts for a time interval which is orders of magnitude longer than the relaxation time to the PS state. Essentially the same response is predicted for a single laser interacting with two atomic transitions.

Bistability in the Laser Cooling of Atomic-Beams / Broggi, G; Brambilla, M; Casagrande, F; Lugiato, La. - In: HELVETICA PHYSICA ACTA. - ISSN 0018-0238. - STAMPA. - 64:6(1991), pp. 918-919.

Bistability in the Laser Cooling of Atomic-Beams

Brambilla, M;
1991-01-01

Abstract

We study the resonant interaction of a beam of two-level atoms with two counter-propagating frequency-chirped lasers, showing that the bistable response of the atomic deceleration to the sweeping rate gives origin to a double-peaked pseudo-stationary (PS) velocity distribution that lasts for a time interval which is orders of magnitude longer than the relaxation time to the PS state. Essentially the same response is predicted for a single laser interacting with two atomic transitions.
1991
Bistability in the Laser Cooling of Atomic-Beams / Broggi, G; Brambilla, M; Casagrande, F; Lugiato, La. - In: HELVETICA PHYSICA ACTA. - ISSN 0018-0238. - STAMPA. - 64:6(1991), pp. 918-919.
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