A Guided Quasicontinuous Atom Laser

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  • 18 July 2006
Abstract
We report the first realization of a guided quasicontinuous atom laser by rf outcoupling a BEC from a hybrid optomagnetic trap into a horizontal atomic waveguide. This configuration allows us to cancel the acceleration due to gravity and thus to keep the de Broglie wavelength constant at a value of about 0.5 $\mu$m during 0.1 s of propagation. We also show that our configuration, equivalent to pigtailing an optical fiber to a (photon) semiconductor laser, ensures an intrinsically good transverse mode matching.

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