Research report 2005 - Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
An electrostatic bottle for cold molecules
Authors
Junglen, Tobias; Pinkse, Pepijn; Rieger, Thomas; Rempe, Gerhard
Departments
Quantendynamik (Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rempe)
MPI für Quantenoptik, Garching
Summary
Abstract
The production and investigation of cold molecules is a young and fascinating field of research. In our research group, electric fields were used to filter slow polar molecules out of a thermal gas. These molecules could be trapped in an electric cage for 300 ms where their temperature amounts to 300 mK.