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Figure 3.18: Distribution <strong>of</strong> the repump master laser beam.<br />

3.2.1.7 Depopulation Beam<br />

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<strong>The</strong> depopulation beam is used during the single-photon cooling process<br />

to transfer atoms from the magnetically trappable |F = 2,mF = 2〉 state to the<br />

magnetically decoupled |F = 1,mF = 0〉 state. More detail on its use during<br />

this process can be found in Ch. 4. This section describes the construction <strong>of</strong><br />

this beam.<br />

<strong>The</strong> depopulation beam is derived from the upper horizontal MOT<br />

beam as shown in Fig. 3.19. <strong>The</strong> upper horizontal MOT beam passes through<br />

an AOM driven at 424 MHz and the −1 st order beam is used as the depopu-<br />

lation beam. After passing through the AOM, the beam is resonant with the<br />

|F = 1〉 → |F ′ = 2〉 transition frequency. <strong>The</strong> depopulation beam is coupled<br />

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