Thermal atom beam splitting by an evanescent standing wave

被引：20

作者：

Brouri, R ^{[1
]}

Asimov, R ^{[1
]}

Gorlicki, M ^{[1
]}

Feron, S ^{[1
]}

Reinhardt, J ^{[1
]}

Lorent, V ^{[1
]}

Haberland, H ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] FAK PHYS,W-3800 FREIBURG,GERMANY

来源：

OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS | 1996年 / 124卷 / 5-6期

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D O I：

10.1016/0030-4018(95)00703-2

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We report the first experimental observation of the diffraction of a thermal supersonic beam of metastable atoms by a partially standing evanescent wave. The geometry of our experiment reduces the Doppler shift, and leads to an important atomic population diffracted in the first even order.

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页码：448 / 451

页数：4

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