Tag Quentin Beaufils

10/05/2007
Article, Chromium

Accumulation of chromium metastable atoms into an optical trap

Arnaud Pouderous Bruno Laburthe-Tolra Etienne Maréchal Jean-Claude Keller Laurent Vernac Olivier Gorceix Quentin Beaufils Radu Chicireanu

We report the fast accumulation of a large number of metastable 52Cr atoms in a mixed trap, formed by the superposition of a strongly confining optical trap and a quadrupolar magnetic trap.
arXiv:0705.1479 (2007) / Eur. Phys. J. D 45, 189 (2007)

13/12/2006
Article, Chromium

Accumulation and thermalization of cold atoms in a finite-depth magnetic trap

Arnaud Pouderous Bruno Laburthe-Tolra Etienne Maréchal J. V. Porto Jean-Claude Keller Laurent Vernac Olivier Gorceix Quentin Beaufils Radu Chicireanu

We study the continuous accumulation of cold atoms from a magneto-optical trap (MOT) into a finite depth trap, consisting in a magnetic quadrupole trap dressed by a radiofrequency (RF) field.
arXiv:0612133 (2006) / Phys. Rev. A 76, 023406 (2007)