Sub-Doppler laser cooling of 40K with Raman gray molasses on the D2 line
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Gray molasses is a powerful tool for sub-Doppler laser cooling of atoms to low temperatures. For alkaline atoms, this technique is commonly implemented with cooling lasers which are blue-detuned from either the D1 or D2 line. Here we show that efficient gray molasses can be implemented on the D2 line of K with red-detuned lasers. We obtained temperatures of m ( ) 48 2 K, which enables direct loading of ́ ( ) 9.2 3 106 atoms from a magneto-optical trap into an optical dipole trap. We support our findings by a one-dimensional model and three-dimensional numerical simulations of the optical Bloch equations which qualitatively reproduce the experimentally observed cooling effects.
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