Behaviour of the friction force in a bichromatic standing light wave
- 28 November 1991
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Vol. 24 (22) , L539-L543
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/24/22/002
Abstract
The authors report experimental results demonstrating that the friction force acting on atoms in a bichromatic standing light wave can substantially differ from that in a monochromatic standing wave. Even a sign reversal can occur in a laser frequency range depending on the spatial phaseshift between the two standing wave components.Keywords
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