Cooling in a bistable optical cavity.
We propose a generic approach to nonresonant laser cooling of atoms and molecules in a bistable optical cavity. The method exemplifies a photonic version of Sisyphus cooling, in which the matter-dressed cavity extracts energy from the particles and discharges it to the external field as a result of sudden transitions between two stable states.
Vilensky
Mark Y
MY
Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 76100.
Prior
Yehiam
Y
Averbukh
Ilya Sh
ISh