Dark-hollow-beam guiding and splitting of a low-velocity atomic beam

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1817-1820

  Yan, Min ^a   Yin, Jianping ^a,b   Zhu, Yifu ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

HOLLOW BEAMS;

ATOMIC BEAMS;

EID: 0034361815     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.001817     Document Type: Article

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