Tue December 6, 2016 4:00 pm
Confessions of a CW Laser Addict
Location:MIT 34-101
Ten Minute Talk:"Bose polarons in the strongly interacting regime" by
Ming-Guang Hu
The generation of narrow-band, coherent light is significantly easier in some parts of the electromagnetic spectrum than others. Since it is the type of light used for laser cooling and trapping, this constraint guides the choices of which atomic and molecular species can be used for precision measurement, quantum simulations, atomic sensors, and other applications of ultracold atoms. Mode-locked lasers, in contrast to their CW counterparts, may have potential for contributing to these fields in new ways that CW lasers cannot, including control and cooling of atomic and molecular motion. I will discuss some of the ways that old problems may find solutions if we can learn to look at mode-locked lasers in a new way.