Rotating single atoms in a ring lattice generated by a spatial light modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 21007-21014

  He, Xiaodong ^a,b,c   Xu, Peng ^a,b,c   Wang, Jin ^a,b   Zhan, Mingsheng ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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EID: 85010090224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021007     Document Type: Article

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