Edward Shuman

Laser radiation pressure slowing of a molecular beam.

We demonstrate deceleration of a beam of neutral strontium monofluoride molecules using radiative forces. Under certain conditions, the deceleration results in a substantial flux of detected molecules with velocities ≲50  m/s. Simulations and other data indicate that the detection of molecules below this velocity is greatly diminished by transverse divergence from the beam. The observed slowing, from ∼140  m/s, corresponds to scattering ≳10(4) photons. We also observe longitudinal velocity compression under different conditions. Combined with molecular laser cooling techniques, this lays the groundwork to create slow and cold molecular beams suitable for trap loading.

Indirect spin-orbit K splittings in strontium

We use delayed field ionization to observe the microwave resonance transitions of Sr from

Many-body ionization in a frozen Rydberg gas.

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Indirect spin-orbitKsplittings in strontium

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Two-photon microwave spectroscopy of Ba 6snl states

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Laser Cooling of a Diatomic Molecule

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Direct laser cooling of a diatomic molecule

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Progress Towards Laser Cooling and Trapping Strontium Monofluoride from a Cryogenic Beam Source

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A Low-cost, Off-the-Shelf Ready Field Programmable Gate Array diode Laser Controller With adjustable parameters

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Cryogenic beam sources: towards trapping and cooling polar molecules

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