TY - JOUR
T1 - All-optical Bose-Einstein condensation using a compressible crossed dipole trap
AU - Kinoshita, Toshiya
AU - Wenger, Trevor
AU - Weiss, David S.
PY - 2005/1/1
Y1 - 2005/1/1
N2 - We describe an all-optical method of making a 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Atoms are first cooled in an optical lattice and loaded into a crossed dipole trap with 1.06 μm light. Then the density is increased by dynamically reducing the trap size, while the atoms are evaporatively cooled by reducing the light intensity. Every 3.3 s, we obtain a nearly pure BEC with 3.5 × 10 5 atoms in their lowest internal energy state.
AB - We describe an all-optical method of making a 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Atoms are first cooled in an optical lattice and loaded into a crossed dipole trap with 1.06 μm light. Then the density is increased by dynamically reducing the trap size, while the atoms are evaporatively cooled by reducing the light intensity. Every 3.3 s, we obtain a nearly pure BEC with 3.5 × 10 5 atoms in their lowest internal energy state.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.011602
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.011602
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:18444394020
SN - 1050-2947
VL - 71
JO - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
JF - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
IS - 1
M1 - 011602
ER -