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Applied Optics

APPLICATIONS-CENTERED RESEARCH IN OPTICS

  • Editor: James C. Wyant
  • Vol. 45, Iss. 15 — May. 20, 2006
  • pp: 3629–3633

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Mirror magneto-optical trap using circularly polarized light-emitting optical fibers

Masaharu Hyodo, Kazuyuki Nakayama, Ryuzo Ohmukai, Kazuyoshi Kurihara, and Masayoshi Watanabe  »View Author Affiliations


Applied Optics, Vol. 45, Issue 15, pp. 3629-3633 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.45.003629


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Abstract

A fiber-optic mirror magneto-optical trap (mirror-MOT) that uses a pair of circularly polarized light-emitting optical fibers as an optical access is demonstrated. The fiber is fabricated so that a length of birefringence fiber, designed to be a quarter wave retarder at both wavelengths of 780 and 852   nm , is attached directly onto a polarization-maintaining normal fiber. The polarization states of light emitted from the fibers are sufficiently circular for the operation of a mirror-MOT with 87Rb atoms. The mirror-MOT is able to capture approximately the same number of atoms obtainable with a conventional mirror-MOT. The technique makes it possible to fabricate a compact MOT apparatus by introducing the optical fibers directly into an ultrahigh-vacuum chamber.

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OCIS Codes
(020.7010) Atomic and molecular physics : Laser trapping
(060.2420) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fibers, polarization-maintaining
(140.3320) Lasers and laser optics : Laser cooling
(260.1440) Physical optics : Birefringence
(260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization

History
Original Manuscript: August 11, 2005
Manuscript Accepted: November 10, 2005

Citation
Masaharu Hyodo, Kazuyuki Nakayama, Ryuzo Ohmukai, Kazuyoshi Kurihara, and Masayoshi Watanabe, "Mirror magneto-optical trap using circularly polarized light-emitting optical fibers," Appl. Opt. 45, 3629-3633 (2006)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-45-15-3629

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