Radiative force from optical cycling on a diatomic molecule

E. S. Shuman, J. F. Barry, D. R. Glenn +1

We demonstrate a scheme for optical cycling in the polar, diatomic molecule strontium monofluoride (SrF) using the $X ^2Σ^+\toA^2Π_{1/2}$ electronic transition. SrF's highly diagon…