A reflection grating for atoms at normal incidence

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 485-490

  Landragin, A ^a   Cognet, L ^a   Horvath K , Zs ^a   Westbrook, C I ^a   Westbrook, N ^a   Aspect, A ^a  

^a INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL   (France)

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EID: 0031231680     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i1997-00381-x     Document Type: Article

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18. In the time domain, diffraction at normal incidence, interpretable by a scalar theory, has been observed, and used for atomic interferometry (see STEANE A., SZRIFTGISER P., DESBIOLLES P. and DALIBARD J., Phys. Rev. Lett., 74 (1995) 4972; SZRIFTGISER P., GÚERY-ODELIN D., ARNDT M. and DALIBARD J., Phys. Rev. Lett., 77 (1996) 4).
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20. For a discussion of the role of the van der Waals interaction in the evanescent wave mirror see LANDRAGIN A., COURTOIS J.-Y., LABEYRIE G., VANSTEENKISTE N., WESTBROOK C. I. and ASPECT A., Phys. Rev. Lett., 77 (1996) 1464 and references therein.
21. d is also equal to the maximum power of the retroreflected beam at point (b).
22. To understand how a non-uniform index of modulation can lead to an asymmetry in the atomic spatial distribution, one has to take into account the correlation between the position where the atoms bounce on the mirror, their incident momentum and the position where they are detected in the probe beam.
23. The fact that our collimation is of the same order as the expected momentum transfer corresponds to a transverse coherence length which is approximately equal to that of the grating period. In other words, our diffraction pattern does not result from multiple-beam interference.
24. 1 = 53.4°. This is consistent with our 20% uncertainty in this light shift measurement.