Accession Number:

AD1058470

Title:

Laser Cooling and Trapping of Diatomic Molecules

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Final Report]

Corporate Author:

Yale University

Personal Author(s):

• DeMille, David

Report Date:

2016-10-09

Pagination or Media Count:

10

Abstract:

This is the final report for our DURIP grant entitled Apparatus for Laser Slowing and Cooling of Molecules. We have successfully acquired and assembled all parts for a new cryogenic molecular beam source, and recently used the source for preliminary work on laser cooling of a new molecular species, TlF. We have also successfully acquired and assembled the parts for a custom laser system, which produces long 200 microsecond, single-frequency pulses with energy 1.1 Joules at 1064 nm andor 0.4 Joules at 532 nm. We have acquired all parts for producing tunable laser pulses based on optical parametric amplification of an external cavity diode laser with this system, and assembled all but the final, yet-to-be-tested stage.

Descriptors:

• optical lattices
• lasers
• laser beams
• laser cooling
• magnetic fields
• diatomic molecules
• engineering
• frequency
• laser diodes
• magnetic moments
• molecular beams
• tunable lasers
• amplifiers
• cooling
• ground state
• laser pulses
• molecular physics
• molecules
• physics
• angular momentum

Subject Categories:

• Atomic and Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy
• Lasers and Masers

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]