Cooling molecules in optical cavities

Weiping Lu, Yongkai Zhao, P. F. Barker

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Abstract

We have studied theoretically and numerically the cooling of CN molecules in a high-finesse optical cavity and show that these molecules can be cooled from 100 mK temperatures to submillikelvin temperatures in less than 1 ms. We establish that the cooling time does not change significantly with molecular numbers and initial temperatures over a wide range. We have further studied the scaling of the system for extending the current results for hundreds of molecules to a very large molecular ensemble. The results indicate that a gas of 109 molecules can be cooled in the cavity by use of a far-off-resonant and high-intensity pump source. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

Original languageEnglish
Article number013417
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume76
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jul 2007

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