Suppression of recoil heating by an optical lattice
We report suppression of atomic heating by light scattering due to tight binding in a 3D far-off-resonant optical lattice. We show that rescattered spontaneously emitted photons do not heat trapped atoms when the scattering rate is much less than the trap vibrational frequency.
Wolf
S
Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA.
Oliver
SJ
Weiss
DS