Spatial correlation diagnostics for atoms in optical lattices

Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 249-261

  Grondalski, J ^a   Alsing, P M ^a   Deutsch, I H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; LASER APPLICATIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ATOMIC WAVE PACKETS; EXTERNAL PROBE LASERS; OPTICAL LATTICES; QUANTUM COMPUTING;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 0343389381     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.5.000249     Document Type: Article

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