Splitting matter waves using an optimized standing-wave light-pulse sequence

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Wu, Saijun ^a   Wang, Ying Ju ^b   Diot, Quentin ^b   Prentiss, Mara ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT-PULSE SEQUENCE; SPLITTING MATTER WAVES;

DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 26944478610     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.043602     Document Type: Article

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