Crossed-Beam slowing to enhance narrow-line Ytterbium Magneto-Optic Traps

Benjamin Plotkin-Swing, Anna Wirth, Daniel Gochnauer +3

We demonstrate a method to enhance the atom loading rate of a ytterbium (Yb) magneto-optic trap (MOT) operating on the 556 nm ${{}^{1}S}_0\to {{}^{3}P}_1$ intercombination transit…