Cooling and trapping Strontium atoms
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We performed the simultaneous trapping of two isotopes (86Sr and 88Sr) in the red MOT (N.Poli et al. Phys. Rev. A 71, 061403(R) (2005)). Thanks to the low temperature obtained in the red MOT, such isotopic mixture is efficiently transferred into a FORT. We observe fast interspecies thermalization in the dipole trap which allows one to set a lower bound of 70aB on the 86Sr-88Sr elastic cross section.
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