Light Assisted Collisional Loss in a ${}^{85/87}$Rb Ultracold Optical Trap

Anthony R. Gorges, Nicholas S. Bingham, Michael K. DeAngelo +2

We have studied hetero- and homonuclear excited state/ground state collisions by loading both ${}^{85}$Rb and ${}^{87}$Rb into a far off resonant trap (FORT). Because of the relatively…