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Single-Photon Atomic Cooling - Raizen Lab - The University of ...

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Figure 2.7: Three pairs <strong>of</strong> counter propagating laser beams impinge on an<br />

atom. Each beam is detuned below the atomic transition resonance by the<br />

same amount.<br />

figure three pairs <strong>of</strong> counter propagating beams, all at the same frequency and<br />

intensity, interact with an atom. It might appear that this arrangement will<br />

have no effect on the atom because the effect from counter propagating beams<br />

will cancel. This is true for a stationary atom, but for an atom in motion the<br />

symmetry <strong>of</strong> the arrangement is broken. <strong>The</strong> Doppler effect causes the atom<br />

to scatter photons out <strong>of</strong> counter propagating beams at different rates, leading<br />

to an imbalance <strong>of</strong> the force on the atom. Consider the 1-D situation depicted<br />

in Fig. 2.8 in which each <strong>of</strong> the counter propagating beams is tuned below<br />

the atomic resonance frequency ω0 by the same amount. If the atom moves<br />

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