Abstract
We consider laser cooling of free atoms with simultaneous two-color excitation of three-level cascade transitions [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] finding theoretically that temperatures below the Doppler limits associated with each one of the individual transitions are obtained. We use standard laser cooling analysis [7], [8] and the dressed state picture in order to identify different cooling regions, and determining optimum parameters for guiding further experiments. These new “sub-Doppler” limits are reached at the two-photon resonance where a significant increase of the damping coefficient and decrease of the diffusion take place. In the dressed state picture, this point corresponds to a crossing of the narrow and a (partially) dark state.
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