Optical Production of Ultracold Polar Molecules
  We demonstrate the production of ultracold polar RbCs molecules in their vibronic ground state, via photoassociation of laser-cooled atoms followed by a laser-stimulated state transfer process. The resulting sample of $X ^1\Sigma^+ (v=0)$ molecules has a translational temperature of $\sim100 \mu$K and a narrow distribution of rotational states. With the method described here it should be possible to produce samples even colder in all degrees of freedom, as well as other bi-alkali species. 
J. M. Sage (1), S. Sainis (1), T. Bergeman (2), and D. DeMille (1)   ((1)Department of Physics, Yale University, (2)Departme...