Summary form only given. A tightly focused and rapidly rotating blue-detuned laser beam was used to trap rubidium atoms in the dark with long atomic coherence times. Adiabatic compression and laser cooling then yielded atomic densities well above 10/sup 13/ cm/sup -3/.
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Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 1999. QELS '99. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
Date of Conference: 23-28 May 1992