THERMAL ATOM BEAM SPLITTING BY AN EVANESCENT STANDING-WAVE

Authors
BROURI R ASIMOV R GORLICKI M FERON S REINHARDT J LORENT V HABERLAND H
Citation
R. Brouri et al., THERMAL ATOM BEAM SPLITTING BY AN EVANESCENT STANDING-WAVE, Optics communications, 124(5-6), 1996, pp. 448-451
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
124
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
448 - 451
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1996)124:5-6<448:TABSBA>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
We report the first experimental observation of the diffraction of a t hermal supersonic beam of metastable atoms by a partially standing eva nescent wave. The geometry of our experiment reduces the Doppler shift , and leads to an important atomic population diffracted in the first even order.