Novel laser controlled variable matter wave beamsplitter

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 77-83

  Theuer, H ^a   Unanyan, R G ^a   Habscheid, C ^a   Klein, K ^a   Bergmann, K ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BEAMS; COHERENT LIGHT; FREQUENCIES; FUNCTIONS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; NEON; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOMIC STATES; LASER CONTROL; NONADIABATIC COUPLINGS; SPLITTING RATIO;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 0002818963     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000077     Document Type: Article

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