We present an optical cooling scheme that relies on hyperfine dark states to enhance loading and cooling atoms inside deep optical dipole traps. We demonstrate a sevenfold increase in the number of atoms loaded in the conservative potential with strongly shifted excited states. In addition, we use the energy selective dark state to efficiently cool the atoms trapped inside the conservative potential rapidly and without losses. Our findings open the door to optically assisted cooling of trapped atoms and molecules which lack the closed cycling transitions normally needed to achieve low temperatures and the high initial densities required for evaporative cooling.

Naik D.S., Eneriz-Imaz H., Carey M., Freegarde T., Minardi F., Battelier B., et al. (2020). Loading and cooling in an optical trap via hyperfine dark states. PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH, 2(1), 1-6 [10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013212].

Loading and cooling in an optical trap via hyperfine dark states

Minardi F.;
2020

Abstract

We present an optical cooling scheme that relies on hyperfine dark states to enhance loading and cooling atoms inside deep optical dipole traps. We demonstrate a sevenfold increase in the number of atoms loaded in the conservative potential with strongly shifted excited states. In addition, we use the energy selective dark state to efficiently cool the atoms trapped inside the conservative potential rapidly and without losses. Our findings open the door to optically assisted cooling of trapped atoms and molecules which lack the closed cycling transitions normally needed to achieve low temperatures and the high initial densities required for evaporative cooling.
2020
Naik D.S., Eneriz-Imaz H., Carey M., Freegarde T., Minardi F., Battelier B., et al. (2020). Loading and cooling in an optical trap via hyperfine dark states. PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH, 2(1), 1-6 [10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013212].
Naik D.S.; Eneriz-Imaz H.; Carey M.; Freegarde T.; Minardi F.; Battelier B.; Bouyer P.; Bertoldi A.
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