Ion-recoil momentum spectroscopy in a laser-cooled atomic sample

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 043408-043401

  Wolf, Steffen ^a,b   Helm, Hanspeter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; LASER BEAMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; POSITIVE IONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ION RECOIL MOMENTUM SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETOOPTIC TRAP; TWO PHOTON IONIZATION;

RUBIDIUM;

EID: 0034298192     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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