Integrated atom-optical circuit with continuous-wave operation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 648-651

  Schneble, Dominik ^a,b   Hasuo, Masahiro ^a,c   Anker, Thomas ^a   Pfau, Tilman ^a,d   Mlynek, Jürgen ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ATOM-OPTICAL CIRCUITS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0038173581     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.000648     Document Type: Article

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27. -3 did not contribute significantly.