Analysis of Kapitza-Dirac diffraction patterns beyond the Raman-Nath regime

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 19173-19180

  Gadway, Bryce ^a   Pertot, Daniel ^a   Reimann, René ^a   Cohen, Martin G ^a   Schneble, Dominik ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; OPTICAL LATTICES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ATOMIC SYSTEM; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; MODULATION DEPTH; PULSE LENGTH; RABI DYNAMICS; SQUARE PULSE; STANDING WAVE; TWO-STATE SYSTEMS;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 70350337937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019173     Document Type: Article

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