Magneto Optical Trap

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• Magneto-optical trap — experimental setup of the MOT A magneto optical trap (abbreviated MOT) is a device that uses both laser cooling with magneto optical trapping in order to produce samples of cold, trapped, neutral atoms at temperatures as low as several… …   Wikipedia

• Optical tweezers — (originally called single beam gradient force trap ) are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to provide an attractive or repulsive force (typically on the order of piconewtons), depending on the refractive index mismatch… …   Wikipedia

• Optical molasses — Schematic Optical molasses is a laser cooling technique that can cool down neutral atoms to temperatures colder than a magneto optical trap (MOT). An optical molasses consists of 3 pairs of counter propagating circularly polarized laser beams… …   Wikipedia

• Magneto-optische Falle — Eine magneto optische Falle (engl. magneto optical trap, MOT) ist ein Hilfsmittel der Atomphysik, welches zur Kühlung und Speicherung von neutralen Atomen benutzt wird. Kühlung bedeutet hier Abbremsen der Atome, da sich die Temperatur eines… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Magnetic trap (atoms) — A magnetic trap uses a magnetic gradient to trap neutral particles with a magnetic moment. Although such traps have been employed for many purposes in physics research, they are best known as the last stage in cooling atoms to achieve Bose… …   Wikipedia

• Magnetic trap — refers to one of three types of traps used for atoms or charged particles: Magnetic trap (atoms), used to trap neutral atoms in a magnetic field gradient Penning trap, used to trap charged particles or ions in a combination of electrostatic… …   Wikipedia

• Dipole trap — A dipole trap is a system in which a laser (or two lasers) are used to polarize an individual atom for study. The set up is similar to a Magneto optical trap except that there is no magnetic field and a reduced number of lasers. References… …   Wikipedia

• Doppler cooling — is a mechanism that can be used to trap and cool atoms. The term is sometimes used synonymously with laser cooling, though laser cooling includes other techniques. Contents 1 History 2 Brief Explanation 3 Detailed Explanation …   Wikipedia

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• Laser cooling — refers to the number of techniques in which atomic and molecular samples are cooled through the interaction with one or more laser light fields. The first example of laser cooling, and also still the most common method of laser cooling (so much… …   Wikipedia