Variable focal-length lens for atoms

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 257-267

  Li, Qiming ^a   Baldwin, K G H ^a   Bachor, H A ^a   McClelland, D E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030533305     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.13.000257     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. P. L. Gould, G. A. Ruff, and D. E. Pritchard, "Diffusion of atoms by light: the near-resonant Kapitza-Dirac effect," Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 827 (1986).
2. P. J. Martin, B. G. Oldaker, A. H. Miklich, and D. E. Pritchard, "Bragg scattering of atoms from a standing light wave," Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 515 (1988).
3. M. Christ, A. Scholz, M. Schiffer, R. Deutschmann, and W. Ertmer, "Diffraction and reflection of a slow metastable neon beam by an evanescent light grating," Opt. Commun. 107, 211 (1994).
4. J. V. Hajnal, K. G. H. Baldwin, P. T. H. Fisk, H.-A. Bachor, and G. I. Opat, "Reflection and diffraction of sodium atoms by evanescent laser light fields," Opt. Commun. 73, 331 (1989); K. G. H. Baldwin, J. V. Hajnal, P. T. H. Fisk, H.-A. Bachor, and G. I. Opat, "Optics for neutral atomic beams: reflection and diffraction of sodium atoms by evanescent laser light fields," J. Mod. Opt. 37, 1839 (1990).
5. J. V. Hajnal, K. G. H. Baldwin, P. T. H. Fisk, H.-A. Bachor, and G. I. Opat, "Reflection and diffraction of sodium atoms by evanescent laser light fields," Opt. Commun. 73, 331 (1989); K. G. H. Baldwin, J. V. Hajnal, P. T. H. Fisk, H.-A. Bachor, and G. I. Opat, "Optics for neutral atomic beams: reflection and diffraction of sodium atoms by evanescent laser light fields," J. Mod. Opt. 37, 1839 (1990).
6. B. W. Stenlake, I. C. M. Littler, H.-A. Bachor, K. G. H. Baldwin, and P. T. H. Fisk, "Observation of velocity-tuned resonances in the reflection of atoms from an evanescent light grating," Phys. Rev. A 49, R16 (1994).
7. A. Aspect, J. Dalibard, A. Heidmann, C. Salomon, and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, "Cooling atoms with stimulated emission," Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 1688 (1986).
8. J. Dalibard, A. Heidmann, C. Salomon, A. Aspect, H. Metcalf, and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, "Atomic motion in a resonant laser standing wave," in Fundamentals of Quantum Optics II, F. Ehlotzky, ed. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987), p. 196.
9. C. E. Tanner, B. P. Masterson, and C. E. Wieman, "Atomic beam collimation using a laser diode with a self-locking power-buildup cavity," Opt. Lett. 13, 357 (1988).
10. J. Chen, J. G. Story, J. J. Tollett, and R. G. Hulet, "Adiabatic cooling of atoms by an intense blue detuned standing wave," Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1344 (1992).
11. R. Grimm, J. Soding, and Yu. B. Ovchinnikov, "Coherent beam splitter for atoms based on a bichromatic standing light wave," Opt. Lett. 19, 658 (1994).
12. G. Timp, R. E. Behringer, D. M. Tennant, J. E. Cunningham, M. Prentiss, and K. K. Berggren, "Using light as a lens for submicron, neutral-atom lithography," Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1636 (1992).
13. J. J. McClelland, R. E. Scholten, E. C. Palm, and R. J. Celotta, "Laser focused atomic deposition," Science 262, 877 (1993).
14. T. Sleator, T. Pfau, V. Balykin, and J. Mlynek, "Imaging and focusing of an atomic beam with large period standing light wave," Appl. Phys. B 54, 375 (1992).
15. Y. Z. Wang, W. Q. Cai, Y. D. Cheng, L. Liu, Y. Luo, and X. D. Zhang, "One dimensional motion of slow atoms in a standing-wave field," Phys. Rev. A 42, 4032 (1990).
16. Q. Li, B. W. Stenlake, I. C. M. Littler, H.-A. Bachor, K. G. H. Baldwin, and D. E. McClelland, "Velocity resolved atomic beam reshaping by a standing wave laser field," Laser Phys. 4, 983 (1994).
17. T. Esslinger, A. Hemmerich, and T. W. Hänsch, "Imaging an atomic beam in two dimensions," Opt. Commun. 93, 49 (1992).
18. V. G. Minogin and O. T. Serimaa, "Resonant light pressure forces in a strong standing laser wave," Opt. Commun. 30, 373 (1979).
19. J. Dalibard and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, "Dressed-atom approach to atomic motion in laser light: the dipole force revisited," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2, 1707 (1985).
20. D. T. Pegg and W. R. MacGillivray "Basis transformations for the sodium D line states," Opt. Commun. 59, 113 (1986).
21. J. P. Gordon and A. Ashkin, "Motion of atoms in a radiation trap," Phys. Rev. A 21, 1606 (1980).