Laser cooling and trapping

Laser cooling and trapping is one of my areas of research. This book represents a compilation of some of my recent work in this area. For example, figure 2.2 shows a CCD image of a cloud of trapped ytterbium atoms. The cooling and trapping is done using a combination of laser beams and a quadrupole magnetic field. The fluorescence from the atoms is at the cooling wavelength of 398 nm (resonance fluorescence), and hence the image is in real color of violet.

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Vasant Natarajan completed his B.Tech. from Indian Institute Technology, Madras; his M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; and his Ph.D. from MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He then worked for two years at AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey. He joined the Physics Department at IISc in 1996, where he has been ever since.