Two distinct mechanisms are investigated for transferring a pure Rb-87 Bose
-Einstein condensate in the \ F = 2, m(F) = 2 > state into a mixture of con
densates in all the m(F) states within the F = 2 manifold. Some of these co
ndensates remain trapped whilst others are output coupled in the form of an
elementary pulsed atom laser. Here we present details of the condensate pr
eparation and results of the two condensate output coupling schemes. The fi
rst scheme is a radio-frequency technique which allows controllable transfe
r into available m(F) states, and the second makes use of Majorana spin-fli
ps to populate all the manifold sub-states equally.