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Optical Molasses

Optical Molasses is a laser cooling technique that uses counter-propagating laser beams tuned below an atomic transition frequency to create viscous damping forces, thereby reducing the thermal motion of neutral atoms in a magneto-optical trap.

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Laser cooling below the Doppler limit by polarization gradients: simple theoretical models

Jean Dalibard, Claude Cohen‐Tannoudji · Journal of the Optical Society of America B · 1989 · 1.2K citations

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Experimental Observation of Optically Trapped Atoms

Steven Chu, J. E. Bjorkholm, A. Ashkin et al. · Physical Review Letters · 1986 · 802 citations · Full text

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Observation of Atoms Laser Cooled below the Doppler Limit

Paul D. Lett, R. N. Watts, C. I. Westbrook et al. · Physical Review Letters · 1988 · 613 citations · Full text

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Optical molasses

Paul D. Lett, William D. Phillips, S. L. Rolston et al. · Journal of the Optical Society of America B · 1989 · 387 citations

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Optical molasses and multilevel atoms: theory

P. J. Ungar, David S. Weiss, Erling Riis et al. · Journal of the Optical Society of America B · 1989 · 352 citations

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Authors

391

  1. WD
    William D. Phillips

    National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States

    10 publications · 1.8K citations

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  2. GG
    G. Grynberg

    Sorbonne Université, France

    10 publications · 1.1K citations

    10

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  3. CS
    C. Salomon

    Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, France

    10 publications · 1.4K citations

    10

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  4. JC
    J.-Y. Courtois

    École Normale Supérieure - PSL, France

    7 publications · 909 citations

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  5. CI
    C. I. Westbrook

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    7 publications · 1.3K citations

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Institutions

104

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology

    Gaithersburg, United States

    18 h-index

    82 publications

    10.2K citations

  2. Sorbonne Université

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    36 publications

    4.5K citations

  3. École Normale Supérieure - PSL

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    51 publications

    5.6K citations

  4. Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    37 publications

    5.3K citations

  5. Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics

    Boulder, United States

    9 h-index

    27 publications

    1.3K citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    8 h-index

    39 publications

    2.7K citations

  7. Stony Brook University

    Stony Brook, United States

    8 h-index

    24 publications

    1.9K citations

  8. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    8 h-index

    27 publications

    1.4K citations

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Venues

  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 24 publications · 4K citations

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  2. Physical Review A

    PRA · 25 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. Journal of the Optical Society of America B

    19 publications · 3.1K citations

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  4. Europhysics Letters (EPL)

    10 publications · 891 citations

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