🚀 New innovations in laser #technology were essential to build the record-breaking MOT of our Bonn colleagues... Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.21376
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Within the Horizon 2021 project #UVQuanT, colleagues at the University of Bonn have broken a laser cooling record by loading atomic zinc into a magneto-optical trap. They used light at a wavelength of 214 nm - thus pushing the limit for laser cooling of atoms deeper into the UV part of the spectrum.
News from #UVQuant: New molecular MOT! A team at the FHI has succeeded in loading the first magneto-optical trap (MOT) of a spin-singlet molecule, diatomic AlF. This is the first time a chemically stable molecule has been laser-cooled and trapped.
Read more in Phys Rev Lett: doi.org/10.1103/ksnd...
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As part of the Horizon 2021 project #UVQuanT, the team of Dr. Stefan Truppe at Imperial College London has demonstrated high-power (500 mW), continuous laser light at 231.7 nm. These new systems will be used for cooling and trapping AlF molecules, a new candidate for ultracold molecular experiments.
