Abstract
We report the first observation of radiation-pressure cooling on a system of resonant absorbers which are elastically bound to a laboratory fixed apparatus. Mg ii ions confined in a Penning electromagnetic trap are cooled to <40 K by irradiating them with the 8-μW output of a frequency doubled, single- mode dye laser tuned to the low- frequency side of the Doppler profile on the ( or ) transitions. Cooling to approximately K should be possible.
- Received 26 April 1978
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.40.1639
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