Generation of an intense cold-atom beam from a pyramidal magneto-optical trap: Experiment and simulation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1161-1168

  Kohel, James M ^a   Ramirez Serrano, Jaime ^a   Thompson, Robert J ^a   Maleki, Lute ^a   Bliss, Joshua L ^b   Libbrecht, Kenneth G ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BEAMS; CESIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

MAGNETO-OPTICAL TRAPS;

MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0038239243     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.001161     Document Type: Article

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