Efficient all-optical production of large $^6$Li quantum gases using   D$_1$ gray-molasses cooling
  We use a gray molasses operating on the D$_1$ atomic transition to produce degenerate quantum gases of $^{6}$Li with a large number of atoms. This sub-Doppler cooling phase allows us to lower the initial temperature of 10$^9$ atoms from 500 to 40 $\mu$K in 2 ms. We observe that D$_1$ cooling remains effective into a high-intensity infrared dipole trap where two-state mixtures are evaporated to reach the degenerate regime. We produce molecular Bose-Einstein condensates of up to 5$\times$10$^{5}$ molecules and weakly-interacting degenerate Fermi gases of $7\times$10$^{5}$ atoms at $T/T_{F}<0.1$ with a typical experimental duty cycle of 11 seconds. 
A. Burchianti, G. Valtolina, J. A. Seman, E. Pace, M. De Pas, M.   Inguscio, M. Zaccanti and G. Roati
cond-mat.quant-gas quant-ph