Baum Louis, Vilas Nathaniel B, Hallas Christian, Augenbraun Benjamin L, Raval Shivam, Mitra Debayan, Doyle John M
Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Apr 3;124(13):133201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.133201.
We demonstrate a 1D magneto-optical trap of the polar free radical calcium monohydroxide (CaOH). A quasiclosed cycling transition is established to scatter ∼10^{3} photons per molecule, predominantly limited by interaction time. This enables radiative laser cooling of CaOH while compressing the molecular beam, leading to a significant increase in on axis beam brightness and reduction in temperature from 8.4 to 1.4 mK.
我们展示了一种对极性自由基氢氧化钙(CaOH)的一维磁光阱。建立了一个准闭合循环跃迁,每个分子能散射约10³个光子,主要受相互作用时间限制。这使得CaOH能够进行辐射激光冷却,同时压缩分子束,从而使轴上束流亮度显著增加,温度从8.4 mK降至1.4 mK。