In 1978, while I was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, I read a paper by Art Ashkin (1978) in
which he described how one might slow down an atomic beam of sodium using the radiation …

The techniques of optical trapping and manipulation of neutral particles by lasers provide
unique means to control the dynamics of small particles. These new experimental methods …

Magneto-optical trapping and sub-Doppler cooling have been essential to most experiments
with quantum degenerate gases, optical lattices, atomic fountains and many other …

I Introduction.-1 Review of Quantum Mechanics.-1.1 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory.-
1.2 The Rabi Two-Level Problem.-1.2. 1 Light Shifts.-1.2. 2 The Dressed Atom Picture.-1.2. 3 …

We demonstrate one-dimensional sub-Doppler laser cooling of a beam of YbF molecules to
100 μ K. This is a key step towards a measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment …

The mechanical effects of stimulated Raman transitions on atoms have been used to
demonstrate a matter-wave interferometer with laser-cooled sodium atoms. Interference has …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the orbital angular momentum of light, outlines
the theoretical basis for the orbital angular momentum of beams within the paraxial …

The written version of my lecture is a personal account of the development of laser cooling
and trapping. Rather than give a balanced history of the field, I chose to present a personal …

Electromagnetic interactions play a central role in low energy physics. They are responsible
for the cohesion of atoms and molecules and they are at the origin of the emission and …

The last few years have seen rapid progress in the application of laser cooling to molecules.
In this review, we examine what kinds of molecules can be laser cooled, how to design a …