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Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1558–1561 (1999)

Decelerating Neutral Dipolar Molecules

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Hendrick L. Bethlem, Giel Berden, and Gerard Meijer
Department of Molecular and Laser Physics, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Received 19 February 1999; revised 28 May 1999; published in the issue dated 23 August 1999

It is experimentally demonstrated that a beam of neutral dipolar molecules can be efficiently decelerated with a time-varying electric field. A pulsed beam of neutral metastable CO molecules is slowed down from 225 m/s ( Ekin = 59cm-1) to 98 m/s ( Ekin = 11cm-1) upon passage through an array of 63 synchronously pulsed electric field stages.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1558
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1558
PACS:
33.80.Ps, 33.55.Be
 
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