Four wave mixing in the scattering of Bose-Einstein condensates

Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 530-537

  Trippenbach, Marek ^a   Band, Yehuda B ^a   Julienne, Paul S ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; COOLING; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; QUANTUM OPTICS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES (BEC); LASER COOLING; NONLINEAR COUPLINGS; WAVEPACKETS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0000061305     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.3.000530     Document Type: Article

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