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Atoms cooling with laser

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Relevant publications:

  1. T. Hänsch, and A. Schawlow, "Cooling of gases by laser radiation", Opt. Comm. 13, 68 (1975).
  2. D. Wineland, and H. Dehmelt, "Proposed 10 14 Dn<n laser fluorescence spectroscopy on
            TI + mono-ion oscillator III", Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 20, 637 (1975).
  3.   A. Ashkin, "Acceleration and trapping of particles by radiation pressure", Phys. Rev. Lett. 24, 156 (1970).V.S. Letokhov, Comments At. Mol. Phys. 6, 119 (1977) and references therein.
  4. W. Phillips, and H. Metcalf, "Laser deceleration of an atomic beam", Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 596 (1982).
  5. W. Phillips, "Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms", Rev. Mod. Phys.70, 721, (1998).
  6. R. Wynands and S. Weyers, "Atomic fountain clocks", Metrologia 42, 64 (2005).
  7. A. Joyet, G. Di Domenico, P. Thomann, G. Dudle, "An alternative approach to primary Cs frequency standards",
            Proceedings of the 22th European Frequency and Time Forum, Toulouse, France (2008)
  8. A. Joyet, G. Di Domenico, G.K. Gulati, P. Thomann, A. Stefanov, "Status of the continuous cold fountain clocks at METAS-LTF",
            Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology, p.559, World Scientific (2009).
  9.  A. Joyet et al., "Theoretical study of the Dick effect in a continuously operated Ramsey resonator",
            IEEE Transactions on Instrumentations and Measurement, vol. 50, n° 1, p. 150-156 (2001).
  10.   J. Guéna, G. Dudle and P. Thomann. "An experimental study of intermodulation effects in an atomic
            fountain frequency standard". Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 388, 183 (2007).
  11. P. Berthoud, A. Joyet, G. Dudle, N. Sagna, and P. Thomann. "A continuous beam of slow,
            cold cesium atoms magnetically extracted from a 2D magneto-optical trap". Europhys. Lett. 41, p.141 (1998).
  12.   P. Berthoud, E. Fretel, and P. Thomann,"Bright, slow, and continuous
            beam of laser-cooled cesium atoms", Phys. Rev. A 60, p.4241R (1999).
  13. G. Di Domenico, N. Castagna, M.D. Plimmer, P. Thomann, A.V. Taichenachev, and V.I. Yudin,
            "On the stability of optical lattices", Laser Physics 15, 12, 1674-1679 (2005).
  14. G. Di Domenico, "Collimation d'un jet continu d'atomes de césium par refroidissement laser", Université de Neuchâtel (2004).
  15. G. Di Domenico, N. Castagna, G. Mileti, P. Thomann, A.V. Taichenachev, and V.I. Yudin, "Laser collimation of a continuous beam
            of cold atoms using Zeeman-shift degenerate-Raman-sideband cooling", Phys. Rev. A 69, 063403 (2004).
  16. M.D. Plimmer, N. Castagna, G. Di Domenico, P. Thomann, A.V. Taichenachev, and V.I. Yudin,
            "2D Laser Collimation of a Cold Cs Beam Induced by a Transverse B Field", JETP Letters 82(1), 17-21 (2005).
  17. N. Castagna, J. Guéna, M.D. Plimmer, P. Thomann, "A novel simplified two-dimensional magneto-optical trap
            as an intense source of slow cesium atoms", Eur. Phys. J., Appl. Phys. 34, 21 (2006).
  18. L. Devenoges, G. Di Domenico, P. Thomann, "Generation of an Intense and Slow Caesium Atomic Beam with
            a Two-Dimensional Magneto-Optical Trap (2D-MOT)", Poster contribution to the Joint Annual Meeting of ÖPG, SPS and ÖGAA,
            Swiss Physical Society,  September 2-4, 2009, Innsbruck (Austria)
  19.   P. Thomann, M. Plimmer, G. Di Domenico, N. Castagna, J. Guéna, G. Dudle, F. Füzesi,
            "Continuous beams of cold atoms for space applications", Applied Physics B, 84(4), 659 (2006).