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Geometric resonance cooling of polarizable particles in an optical waveguide
1Research Institute of Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525 Budapest P.O. Box 49, Hungary.
Abstract:
In the radiation field of an optical waveguide, the Rayleigh scattering of photons is shown to result in a strongly velocity-dependent force on atoms. The pump field, which is injected in the fundamental branch of the waveguide, is favorably scattered by a moving atom into one of the transversely excited branches of propagating modes. All fields involved are far detuned from any resonances of the atom. For a simple polarizable particle, a linear friction force coefficient comparable to that of cavity cooling can be achieved.
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