{"id":1460,"date":"2015-10-03T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2020-10-16T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T07:58:48","slug":"narrow-line-magneto-optical-trap-for-erbium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/narrow-line-magneto-optical-trap-for-erbium\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrow-line magneto-optical trap for erbium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong><em>ERBIUM NEWS<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We report on the experimental realization of a robust and efficient magneto-optical trap for erbium atoms, based on a narrow cooling transition at 583 nm. We observe up to N=2\u00d710^8 atoms at a temperature of about T=15 \u03bcK. This simple scheme provides better starting conditions for direct loading of dipole traps as compared to approaches based on the strong cooling transition alone, or on a combination of a strong and a narrow kHz transition. Our results on Er point to a general, simple, and efficient approach to laser cool samples of other lanthanide atoms (Ho, Dy, and Tm) for the production of quantum-degenerate samples.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/?wp-publications=physreva-85-051401\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We report on the experimental realization of a robust and efficient magneto-optical trap for erbium atoms, based on a narrow cooling transition at 583 nm. We observe up to N=2\u00d710^8 atoms at a temperature of about T=15 \u03bcK. This simple scheme provides better starting conditions for direct loading of dipole traps as compared to approaches based on the strong cooling transition alone, or on a combination of a strong and a narrow kHz transition. Our results on Er point to a general, simple, and efficient approach to laser cool samples of other lanthanide atoms (Ho, Dy, and Tm) for the production of quantum-degenerate samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38663,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/38663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}