Decelerating and bunching molecules with pulsed traveling optical lattices

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 134091-1340910

  Dong, Guangjiong ^a   Lu, Weiping ^a   Barker, P F ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DECELERATION; HARMONIC GENERATION; JETS; MOLECULAR BEAMS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; POLARIZATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SUPERSONIC FLOW;

OPTICAL LATTICES; SUPERSONIC JETS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 11844251111     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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