Laser Cooling and Trapping of Atoms, Molecules, and Nanoparticles
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 4806
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Interests: fiber optics; optical fibers; applied optics; radiation-balanced fiber lasers and amplifiers; nanophotonics; nonlinear optics; laser cooling of solids; quantum optics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In 1970, Arthur Ashkin showed that the use of optical forces to alter the motion of microparticles and neutral atoms could have applications in the manipulation of microscopic particles and of single atoms. These pioneering works have formed the basis for two very successful research areas: laser cooling of atoms and optical trapping. Today, these well-developed techniques are common tools for the manipulation of atoms, molecules and particles. For example, optically levitated nanoparticles have been laser-cooled towards their quantum-mechanical ground state, optical tweezers have been developed to measure forces with femtonewton resolution and optical manipulation has been used to build composite nanoassemblies.
The aim of this Special Issue is to attract publications devoted to experimental and/or theoretical works on the latest achievements, trends and developments, including applications of laser cooling and trapping of atoms, molecules and nanoparticles. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- laser cooling of atoms, molecules, nanoparticles;
- optical tweezers;
- optical forces;
- optical lattices;
- structured light for optical tweezers;
- Bose–Einstein condensate;
- atomic fountains;
- application of laser cooling in quantum science;
- Raman cooling;
- exotic laser cooling schemes.
Dr. Galina Nemova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- laser cooling
- optical trapping
- optical tweezers
- optical forces
- optical lattices
- Bose–Einstein condensate
- structure light
- Doppler cooling
- polarization gradient (Sisyphus) cooling
