Analyzing a single-laser repumping scheme for efficient loading of a strontium magneto-optical trap

Fachao Hu, Ingo Nosske, Luc Couturier +6

We demonstrate enhanced loading of strontium atoms into a magneto-optical trap using a repumping scheme from the metastable state via the doubly-excited state $5\mathrm{s}5\mathrm{…