Laser Spectroscopy

Proceedings of the XV I n t e r n a t i o n a l Conference on LASER SPECTRDSCDPY Snowbird, Utah USA 10-15 June 2001 Steven Chu, Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman & Cheng Chin editors World Scientific This page is intentionally left blank P r o c e e d i n g s of the XV I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e on LASER SPECTRDSCDPY Proceedings of the XV I n t e r n a t i o n a l Conference on LASER SPECTRDSCDPY Snowbird, Utah USA 10-15 June 2001 editors Steven Chu, Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman & Cheng Chin Stanford University, USA V|fe World Scientific •Mr New Jersey • London • Singapore • Hong Kong Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. P O Box 128, Fairer Road, Singapore 912805 USA office: Suite IB, 1060 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. LASER SPECTROSCOPY Proceedings of the XV International Conference Copyright © 2002 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN 981-02-4781-8 Printed in Singapore by Uto-Print Preface The 15 International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, ICOLS01, was held on June 10-15, 2001 at Snowbird, a resort located in the Wasatch Mountain Range of Utah. Following the tradition of the previous conferences held at Vail, Megeve, Jackson Lake, Rottach-Egern, Jasper Park, Interlaken, Maui, Are, Bretton Woods, Font-Romeu, Capri, Hangzhou, and Innsbruck, this meeting provided a forum where some of the most active scientists in the field of laser spectroscopy could exchange their latest findings and thoughts in an informal atmosphere. The meeting was attended by 140 scientists from 18 countries. The 39 invited speakers, chosen by an international program committee, and 97 poster contributions reflected the extraordinary vitality of this set of conferences and of the field as a whole. Areas covered by the conference included: studies of Bose-Einstein condensates and ultra-cold Fermi gases, cavity QED and the coherent manipulation of atomic states, laser cooling and trapping, optical frequency measurements, quantum information studies in condensed matter and atomic systems, cold collisions, fundamental measurements, and new spectroscopies in biophysics. Most of the invited presentations are included in this conference proceeding, along with poster contributions selected by the participants. In addition to the participants, the success of this conference was due to the generous support of our corporate sponsors. Without their support, we would not have been able to attract the set of distinguished scientists that attended or offer reduced registration fees to students and postdoctoral fellows. Finally, the members of the local committee would like to thank members of the Stanford University Physics Department, particularly Jenifer Conan-Tice, R