Bright thermal atomic beams by laser cooling: A 1400-fold gain in beam flux

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 323-327

  Hoogerland, M D ^a,b   Driessen, J P J ^b   Vredenbregt, E J D ^b   Megens, H J L ^b   Schuwer, M P ^b   Beijerinck, H C W ^b   Van Leeuwen, K A H ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; COOLING; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER TUNING; LENSES; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

DISCHARGE EXCITED SUPERSONIC SOURCE; FINAL BEAM TRAP; HALF WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; LASER COOLING; PHASE SPACE DENSITY; THERMAL ATOMIC BEAMS; UNMODIFIED AXIAL VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

ATOMIC BEAMS;

EID: 0030129861     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01081192     Document Type: Article

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