Sawtooth-wave adiabatic-passage slowing of dysprosium

We report on sawtooth-wave adiabatic-passage (SWAP) slowing of bosonic and fermionic dysprosium isotopes by using a 136-kHz-wide transition at 626 nm. A beam of precooled atoms is further decelerated in one dimension by the SWAP force and the amount of atoms at near zero velocity is measured. We demonstrate that the SWAP slowing can be twice as fast as in a conventional optical molasses operated on the same transition. In addition, we investigate the parameter range for which the SWAP force is efficiently usable in our setup and relate the results to the adiabaticity condition. Furthermore, we add losses to the hyperfine ground-state population of fermionic dysprosium during deceleration and observe more robust slowing with SWAP compared to slowing with the radiation pressure force.