Off-resonant defocus-contrast imaging of cold atoms

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 232-234

  Turner, Lincoln D ^a   Weber, Karl P ^a   Paganin, David ^a,b   Scholten, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION IMAGING; COLD ATOMS; COLUMN DENSITY IMAGES; CONTRAST IMAGING; DEFOCUSED INTENSITY IMAGE; OFF RESONANT INTENSITY IMAGE; OPTICAL IMAGING;

ATOMS; FOURIER OPTICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PROBES;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0842321990     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.000232     Document Type: Article

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