Deceleration of a continuous-wave (CW) molecular beam with a single quasi-CW semi-Gaussian laser beam

  • Ya Ling Yin
  • , Yong Xia
  • , Jian Ping Yin*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We propose a promising scheme to decelerate a CW molecular beam by using a red-detuned quasi-cw semi-Gaussian laser beam (SGB). We study the dynamical process of the deceleration for a CW deuterated ammonia (ND3) molecular beam by Monte-Carlo simulation method. Our study shows that we can obtain a ND3 molecular beam with a relative average kinetic energy loss of about 10% and a relative output molecular number of more than 90% by using a single quasi-cw SGB with a power of 1.5kW and a maximum optical well depth of 7.33mK.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3672-3677
Number of pages6
JournalChinese Physics B
Volume17
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Optical Stark deceleration
  • Semi-Gaussian beam

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