Issue 8, 2013

Trapping and laser cooling of trace Ca+ isotopes injected from an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer

Abstract

We report the trapping and laser cooling of Ca+ in a linear Paul trap connected to an ICP-MS as an ion source. The ICP-MS enables the stable and efficient loading of Ca+ into the trap from outside of the vacuum chamber. The trapped ions are laser-cooled and their laser induced fluorescence (LIF) is observed. The odd isotope 43Ca+ and the least abundant isotope 46Ca+ are trapped and laser-cooled successfully without the use of isotopically enriched samples.

Graphical abstract: Trapping and laser cooling of trace Ca+ isotopes injected from an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Jan 2013
Accepted
25 Apr 2013
First published
23 May 2013

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2013,28, 1292-1297

Trapping and laser cooling of trace Ca+ isotopes injected from an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer

M. Kitaoka, T. Yoshida, Y. Yamamoto, K. Jung and S. Hasegawa, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2013, 28, 1292 DOI: 10.1039/C3JA00004D

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