Two-photon photoionization of the Ca 4s3d
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We report an optical dipole trap for calcium. The trap is created by focusing a 488-nm argon-ion laser beam into a calcium magneto-optical trap. The argon-ion laser photoionizes atoms in the trap because of a nearresonance with the 4s4f F3 level. By measuring the dipole-trap decay rate as a function of argon-ion laser intensity, we determine the F3 photoionization cross section at our wavelength to be approximately 230 Mb.
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