depumping

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ pumping.

Adjective

depumping (not comparable)

1. (physics) That returns an atom (etc) to its ground state (or a less excited state)
   • 2015, D.S. Barker, B.J. Reschovsky, N.C. Pisenti, G.K. Campbell, “Enhanced Magnetic Trap Loading for Atomic Strontium”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     The depumping laser increases atom number in the magnetic trap and subsequent cooling stages by up to 65 % for the bosonic isotopes and up to 30 % for the fermionic isotope of strontium.