Laser spectroscopy of ultracold metastable helium atoms

Byron, L. J.; Turazza, O.; Dall, R. G.; Truscott, A. G.; Baldwin, K. G.H.

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Laser spectroscopy of ultracold metastable helium atoms

Date

2006

Authors

Abstract

A Bose-Einstein condensation experiment is used to create ultracold metastable helium (23S1) atoms which are probed by a 389nm laser connecting with the 33P state to study photoassociation in the short-lived molecular states thus created.