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Figure 2.9: <strong>The</strong> Sisyphus cooling effect. (a) <strong>The</strong> relative coupling strength<br />

<strong>of</strong> all allowed electric dipole transitions are shown as integer values. (b) <strong>The</strong><br />

standing wave formed by two counter-propagating beams with orthogonal linear<br />

polarizations results in a polarization gradient. (c) <strong>The</strong> ground state energy<br />

levels are shifted periodically by the polarization gradient.<br />

<strong>The</strong> result <strong>of</strong> the superposition <strong>of</strong> the counter-propagating beams with<br />

orthogonal linear polarization is a standing wave with a spatially varying po-<br />

larization. This is indicated in Fig. 2.9(b) where a beam traveling to the<br />

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