Arora, Poonam and Chowdhury, Swatilekha and Agarwal, Ashish and Pant, Kavindra and Gupta, Amitava Sen (2011) Characterization of cold atomic cloud in a magneto-optical trap. Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics, 49 (9). pp. 590-595. ISSN 0975-1041

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Abstract

The results of characterization of cold cloud of cesium (Cs) atoms trapped in a magneto-optical trap (MOT) have been presented. The MOT is a part of the Physics package of the Cs Fountain Clock being developed at National Physical Laboratory (NPL), India. The number of atoms, size and temperature of the cloud have been measured and calculated. It is also been investigated how the number of trapped atoms changes with the trapping laser’s beam intensity, detuning and magnetic-field gradient of the trap.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Laser cooling and trapping; Frequency control; Magnetic field
Subjects:	Applied Physics/Condensed Matter Physics
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Mr. Abhishek Yadav
Date Deposited:	08 Nov 2012 09:11
Last Modified:	08 Nov 2012 09:11
URI:	http://npl.csircentral.net/id/eprint/807

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