Holographic manipulation of a cold atomic beam

被引:76
作者
Morinaga, M [1 ]
Yasuda, M [1 ]
Kishimoto, T [1 ]
Shimizu, F [1 ]
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[1] NEC CORP LTD, FUNDAMENTAL RES LABS, TSUKUBA, IBARAKI 305, JAPAN
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.802
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
A method of generating an arbitrary pattern of atoms by using an interferometric technique is reported. A laser-cooled metastable Ne atomic beam in the 1s(3) state is diffracted by a computer generated binary hologram. A black-and-white pattern is drawn on a microchannel detector with a spatial resolution exceeding 65 mu m and a resolving power better than 30.
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