Reducing the linewidth of an atom laser by feedback

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1143-1147

  Wiseman, H M ^a   Thomsen, L K ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; LASER MODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POISSON EQUATION; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATOM LASER; ATOMIC INTERACTION ENERGY; CONDENSATE ATOM NUMBER; FREQUENCY FLUCTUATIONS; QUANTUM NONDEMOLITION MEASUREMENT;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 0035252403     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1143     Document Type: Article

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