All-Optical Production of a Lithium Quantum Gas Using Narrow-Line Laser Cooling

P. M. Duarte, R. A. Hart, J. M. Hitchcock +4

We have used the narrow $2S_{1/2}\to 3P_{3/2}$ transition in the ultraviolet (uv) to laser cool and magneto-optically trap (MOT) ${}^6$Li atoms. Laser cooling of lithium is…