The Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect in a pulsed atom laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 18712-18719

  Manning, A G ^a   Hodgman, S S ^a   Dall, R G ^a   Johnsson, M T ^a   Truscott, A G ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; POPULATION STATISTICS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASERS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STEAM CONDENSERS;

ACQUISITION RATES; ATOM LASER; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; CORRELATION EFFECT; DECOHERENCE; DENSITY CORRELATION; INCOHERENT SOURCES; METASTABLE HELIUM; THERMAL SOURCE; ULTRA-COLD;

ATOMS;

EID: 77956389521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018712     Document Type: Article

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