Standing wave diffraction with a beam of slow atoms
- 1 October 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Modern Optics
- Vol. 44 (10) , 1863-1881
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09500349708231852
Abstract
We report on atom optical experiments employing a magnetooptical trap as a source of a pulsed beam of slow atoms. After turning off the trap, experiments are performed on the cloud of atoms in free fall over a distance of 45 cm. We give a detailed description of the apparatus and discuss experimental results on the diffraction of atoms from a standing light wave in the regimes of short, intermediate and long interaction times. PACS: 03.75Be, 32.80Pj, 42.50Vk.Keywords
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