Aluminum monofluoride (AlF) is a promising candidate to produce a dense, ultracold gas through laser cooling. We present our recent progress towards implementing a Zeeman slower for the molecules, transverse and rotational cooling, and magento-optical trapping of AlF molecules. We also present a thorough characterisation of a MOT of Cd atoms using the 1P1 ← 1S0 transition near 229 nm. Cd is an excellent species to test our MOT apparatus as it shares many properties with the more complex case of AlF.
*This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 949119).
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Publication:S Hofsäss et al 2021 New J. Phys. 23 075001 S Truppe et al 2019 Phys. Rev. A 100, 052513
Presenters
Simon Hofsaess
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Authors
Simon Hofsaess
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Sidney Wright
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Maximilian J Doppelbauer
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Sebastian Kray
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Eduardo Padilla
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Boris Sartakov
Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Jesus Perez Rios
Department of Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University; Fritz-Haber Institute
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; IMM, Radboud University; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University; Fritz-Haber-Institute
Department of Physics and Astromy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
