Measuring the temporal coherence of an atom laser beam

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 16, 2001, Pages

  Köhl, Michael ^a,b   Hänsch, Theodor W ^a,b   Esslinger, Tilman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BEAMS; CONDENSATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GASES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT REFLECTION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; RADIOISOTOPES; RUBIDIUM;

ATOM LASER BEAM; BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; INTERFERENCE PATTER; OUTPUT COUPLING PROCESS; TEMPORAL COHERENCE;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 37649030426     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.160404     Document Type: Article

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