Magneto Optical Trap Background Reading

The following links and files are relevant to using and teaching with a MOT

Background reading for our lab:

• Laser Cooling and Trapping
• Laser Cooling and Trapping Advanced Teaching Laboratories

Other MOT experiments suitable for teaching:

• A simple laser cooling apparatus
• Measurement of sub-natural linewidth AC Stark shifts in cold atoms

Folks who already teach with the MOT:

• Teaching lab MOT (Rochester)
• Atom trapping course (York)
• Berkeley Adv. Lab
• SPS Undergraduate Project (Ithaca)

Historical MOT papers:

• Very cold atoms in a vapor cell