Detection of cold metastable atoms at a surface

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2685-2689

  Schneble, D ^a,b   Hasuo, M ^a,c   Anker, T ^a   Pfau, T ^a,d   Mlynek, J ^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

LASER APPLICATIONS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SURFACES;

METASTABLE ATOMS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0038527412     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1561597     Document Type: Article

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