Resonance fluorescence of a laser cooled atom in a non-harmonic potential
arXiv:1605.05951 · doi:10.1140/epjd/e2016-70336-9
Abstract
We investigate a single laser driven atom trapped in a non-harmonic potential. We present the performance of ground-state laser cooling and Doppler cooling and the signatures of the center-of-mass motion in the power spectrum of the scattered light. In order to illustrate the results we provide two explicit examples for the confining potential: the infinite square well and the Morse potential.
13 pages, 7 figures
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