Coherence properties of guided-atom interferometers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Kreutzmann, H ^a   Poulsen, U V ^a   Lewenstein, M ^a   Dumke, R ^b   Ertmer, W ^b   Birkl, G ^b   Sanpera, A ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

BEAM SPLITTERS; COLOR FILTER; FRINGES; NEUTRAL ATOMS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 2942553717     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.163201     Document Type: Article

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