A steady-state magneto-optical trap with 100 fold improved phase-space density

Shayne Bennetts, Chun-Chia Chen, Benjamin Pasquiou +1

We demonstrate a continuously loaded ${}^{88}\mathrm{Sr}$ magneto-optical trap (MOT) with a steady-state phase-space density of $1.3(2)\times 10^{-3}$. This is two orders of magnitu…