Coherent beam splitter for atoms based on a bichromatic standing light wave
- 1 May 1994
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 19 (9) , 658-660
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.19.000658
Abstract
We propose a new coherent atomic beam splitter that is based on the induced redistribution of photons in the intense field of two collinear standing waves with different frequencies. In the dressed-atom approach, we show that this scheme can provide a clear large-angle splitting into two components without being restricted to the Raman–Nath regime.Keywords
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