Semiclassical Theory of Cavity-assisted Light Forces on Atoms and Applications

✍ Scribed by Peter Domokos; Peter Horak; Helmut Ritsch

• Book ID: 101383620
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 185 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/1521-3978(200110)49:10/11<935::aid-prop935>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

We present a semiclassical theory that can describe the centre-of-mass motion of a neutral atom in a strongly coupled cavity field. We show that a cavity-assisted cooling mechanism can lead to efficient loading of an atom into a wavelength size optical microtrap.