Kuppens, S.; Rauner, M.; Schiffer, M.; Sengstock, K.; Ertmer, Wolfgang; van Dorsselaer, F.E.; Nienhuis, G.
(American Physical Society, 1998)
We present experimental and theoretical studies of polarization-gradient cooling of metastable neon atoms confined to the dark center of a TEM*01 (doughnut) mode. A slow beam of neon atoms is guided and focused inside a ...