A comparison of continuous and pulsed sideband cooling on an electric quadrupole transition
Abstract: Sideband cooling enables preparation of trapped ion motion near the ground state and is essential for many scientific and technological applications of trapped ion devices. Here, we study the efficiency of continuous and pulsed sideband cooling using both first- and second-order sidebands applied to an ion where the motion starts outside the Lamb-Dicke regime. We find that after optimizing these distinct cooling methods, pulsed and continuous cooling achieve similar results based on simulations and experiments with a ${40}$Ca$+$ ion. We consider optimization of both average phonon number $\overline{n}$ and population in the ground state. We also demonstrate the disparity between $\overline{n}$ as measured by the sideband ratio method of trapped ion thermometry and the $\overline{n}$ found by averaging over the ion's motional state distribution.
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