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Slow, Continuous Beams of Large Gas Phase Molecules
Cold, continuous, high flux beams of benzonitrile, fluorobenzine, and anisole
have been created. Buffer-gas cooling with a cryogenic gas provides the cooling
and slow forward beam velocities. The beam of benzonitrile was measured to have
a forward velocity peaked at 67 m s, and a continuous flux of
molecules s. These beams provide a continuous source for high
resolution spectroscopy, and provide an attractive starting point for further
spatial manipulation of such molecules, including eventual trapping
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Cooling and Collisions of Large Gas Phase Molecules
Cold and dense samples of naphthalene are produced using buffer gas cooling in combination with rapid, high flow molecule injection. The observed naphthalene density is over a volume of a few at a temperature of 6 K. We observe naphthalene–naphthalene collisions through two-body loss of naphthalene with a loss cross section of . Analysis is presented that indicates that this combination of techniques will be applicable to many comparably sized molecules. This technique can also be combined with cryogenic beam methods to produce cold, high flux, continuous molecular beams.Physic
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Realization of Coherent Optically Dense Media via Buffer-Gas Cooling
We demonstrate that buffer-gas cooling combined with laser ablation can be
used to create coherent optical media with high optical depth and low Doppler
broadening that offers metastable states with low collisional and motional
decoherence. Demonstration of this generic technique opens pathways to coherent
optics with a large variety of atoms and molecules. We use helium buffer gas to
cool 87Rb atoms to below 7 K and slow atom diffusion to the walls.
Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in this medium allows for 50%
transmission in a medium with initial OD >70 and for slow pulse propagation
with large delay-bandwidth products. In the high-OD regime, we observe
high-contrast spectrum oscillations due to efficient four-wave mixing.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. V2: modified title, abstract, introduction,
conclusion; added references; improved theoretical fit in figure 3(b);
shortened slow light theory description; clarified simplicity of apparatus.
Final version as published in Phys. Rev.
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