Odd-toed ungulate! I forgot the micro-motion!

No no no! Just realized that all my efforts to come up with analytical results for the 3D Doppler cooling are useless. Micro-motion might be insignificant along the weak mode, but not so for the other modes.
Lesson: I solemnly swear to always do things in the following order:

  • Think
  • Calculate – Repeat
  • Code
  • Write