The written version of my lecture is a personal account of the development of laser cooling
and trap**. Rather than give a balanced history of the field, I chose to present a personal …

This review describes the methods of trap** cold atoms in electromagnetic fields and in
the combined electromagnetic and gravity fields. We discuss first the basic types of the …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses optical dipole traps for neutral atoms. Methods
for storage and trap** of charged and neutral particles have very often served as the …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the concept of evaporative cooling of trapped
neutral atoms. The recent observations of Bose–Einstein condensation have shown …

We have constructed a novel optical trap for neutral atoms by using a Laguerre-Gaussian
(doughnut) beam whose frequency is blue detuned to the atomic transition. Laser-cooled …

We describe a new type of magnetic trap whose time-averaged, orbiting potential (TOP)
supplies tight and harmonic confinement of atoms. The TOP trap allows for long storage …

A laser cooling method for trapped atoms is described which achieves ground state cooling
by exploiting quantum interference in a driven Λ-shaped arrangement of atomic levels. The …

We have observed evaporative cooling of magnetically trapped sodium atoms. A novel
technique, rf induced evaporation, was used to reduce the temperature by a factor of 12 and …

We trap neutral Cs atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice and cool them close to the zero
point of motion by resolved-sideband Raman cooling. Sideband cooling occurs via …

This is a book about laser cooling, which allows atoms to be cooled to very low
temperatures, and which is a new research field with many potential applications. The …