Optically induced spin precession and echo in an atomic beam

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 3993-3998

  Zielonkowski, M ^a   Steiger, J ^b   Schunemann U ^b   DeKieviet, M ^a   Grimm, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; OPTICAL PUMPING;

ATOMIC BEAM; FICTITIOUS MAGNETIC FIELD; OPTICALLY INDUCED SPIN PRECESSION; SPIN DYNAMICS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0032209643     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.3993     Document Type: Article

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