Laser Cooling and Trapping of Rubidium using a Narrow Transition

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dc.contributor.authorDas, Rajnandan Choudhury
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-29T11:43:30Z
dc.date.available2024-05-29T11:43:30Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionSupervisor: Pandey, Kanhaiyaen_US
dc.description.abstractLaser cooling and trapping serve as a crucial gateway, offering insights into fundamental physics and opening the way for diverse quantum technologies. Among the various elements, Rubidium (Rb) is one of the most extensively studied elements in atomic physics. The cold atom community has mainly used Infrared lasers to cool and trap Rb atoms in a Magneto-optical trap (MOT), usually through the 5S1/2 → 5P3/2 transition at 780 nm. In this thesis, we explore the laser cooling and trapping of Rb atoms in MOT using the 5S1/2 → 6P3/2 narrow-line transition at 420 nm (blue MOT). Despite its large branching ratio, we observe efficient cooling with the 420 nm transition, achieving around 108 atoms in the blue MOT at a typical temperature of 54 μK. We also present a method for the continuous loading of Rb atoms in the blue MOT and a theoretical framework for cooling atoms with two simultaneous transitions. We also describe the direct spectroscopy of Rb at 420 nm, which is challenging due to its weak transition strength. Furthermore, we numerically analyze the role of spontaneously generated coherence (SGC) in polarization gradient cooling with F = 1 → 2 transition and investigate the feasibility of blue-detuned cooling at this transition in the absence of SGC. We experimentally demonstrate blue detuned cooling in type-I and type-II MOT. Additionally, we study various configurations of red-detuned as well as blue-detuned blue MOT, achieving temperatures as low as 24 μK in D1 MOT and 31 μK in D2 MOT. Our studies may find applications in quantum technologies based on the narrow-line cooling transitionsen_US
dc.identifier.otherROLL NO.186121020
dc.identifier.urihttps://gyan.iitg.ac.in/handle/123456789/2625
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTH-3371;
dc.subjectLaser Coolingen_US
dc.subjectMagneto-optical Trapen_US
dc.subjectMOTen_US
dc.subject420nmen_US
dc.subjectNarrow-line Coolingen_US
dc.subjectTwo-stage MOTen_US
dc.subjectSpontaneously Generated Coherenceen_US
dc.subjectSGCen_US
dc.subjectBlue detuned Coolingen_US
dc.subjectSpectroscopyen_US
dc.titleLaser Cooling and Trapping of Rubidium using a Narrow Transitionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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