Chirped-light-field atomic-beam splitter for atom interferometry
- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 47 (6) , 4970-4974
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.47.4970
Abstract
I propose a coherent atomic-beam splitter that can be used for atom interferometry. Chirped adiabatic passage between states of the atoms of the atomic beam is employed as they pass through a standing-wave radiation field to split coherently the atomic beam.Keywords
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