The efficiency of cavity sideband cooling of trapped molecules istheoretically investigated for the case where the IR transition betweentwo rovibrational states is used as a cycling transition. The moleculesare assumed to be trapped either by a radio-frequency or opticaltrapping potential, depending on whether they are charged or neutral,and confined inside a high-finesse optical resonator which enhancesradiative emission into the cavity mode. Using realistic experimentalparameters and COS as a representative molecular example, we show thatin this setup cooling to the trap ground state is feasible.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4916

P.W.H. Pinkse, G. Morigi, M. Kowalewski, R. de Vivie-Riedle

2011

09/2011

Phys. Rev. A

84

033408: 1-4

cavity, cold molecules, optical cooling