A proposal for continuous loading of an optical dipole trap with magnetically guided ultra-cold atoms

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Aghajani Talesh, A ^a   Falkenau, M ^a   Griesmaier, A ^a   Pfau, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DIPOLE TRAPS; ULTRACOLD ATOMS;

EID: 78650929406     PISSN: 09534075     EISSN: 13616455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/42/24/245302     Document Type: Article

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