Optical cooling of molecules

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• Tim Freegarde (Southampton)
• Monday 11 January 2010, 15:00-16:00
• Physics East 217.

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The revolution in atomic physics brought by the inventions of Doppler cooling and the magneto-optical trap has so far mainly been confined to a small number of atomic species and the molecules that may be formed from them. I shall discuss some possible methods for extending direct optical cooling to a wider variety of atomic and molecular species, using both the optical scattering and dipole forces, programmed laser pulses and spatially modulated laser beams.

This talk is part of the Cold Atoms series.

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