Robust digital holography for ultracold atom trapping

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gaunt, Alexander L ^a   Hadzibabic, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; CALCULATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HOLOGRAPHY; MODEL;

EID: 84883555630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00721     Document Type: Article

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