Extended Data Table 1 Repumping transitions driven for CaOH photon cycling and laser cooling

From: Magneto-optical trapping and sub-Doppler cooling of a polyatomic molecule

  1. ‘Ground state’ refers to the vibrational level of the \({\tilde{{\rm{X}}}}^{2}{\Sigma }^{+}\) electronic manifold, and ‘excited state’ gives the excited vibronic level to which the repumping transition is driven. The rotational level of each excited state is \(\tilde{{\rm{A}}}(J{\prime} =1/2,p{\prime} =+)\). ‘Effective’ VBRs account for repumping through both the \(\tilde{{\rm{A}}}\) and \(\tilde{{\rm{B}}}\) states (see text).
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