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Figure 4.19: (a) Calculated potential along a line parallel to ˆz intersecting<br />

the trough at its geometric center. (b) Calculated potential along the trough<br />

vertex.<br />

spontaneously decay. Atom decay from this excited state into the 5 2 S1/2(F =<br />

1) manifold with 84% probability (see Sec. 2.6). <strong>The</strong> remaining atoms decay<br />

back into the 5 2 P3/2(F = 2) manifold and are subsequently re-excited by the<br />

depopulation beam. Because all atoms in the 5 2 S1/2(F = 1) manifold couple<br />

to the magnetic field more weakly than atoms in the initial |F = 2,mF = 2〉<br />

state, they could in principle all be trapped. However, the branching ratio<br />

causes the final population to be predominantly in the mF = 0, 1 sublevels.<br />

For the purpose <strong>of</strong> calculating the final phase-space density, we only consider<br />

atoms in the mF = 0 sublevel.<br />

<br />

<strong>The</strong> depopulation beam travels parallel to the two Gaussian sheets<br />

which form a ‘V’ as shown in Fig. 4.20. It is located a distance hp above the<br />

trough vertex and focused to a 1/e 2 waist <strong>of</strong> approximately 10µm. This beam<br />

is detuned 35 MHz below the 5 2 S1/2(F = 2) → 5 2 P3/2(F ′ = 1) transition.<br />

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