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Atomic optics, Bose-Einstein condensates and atom lasers
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | In 1992, with the backing of CNRS, Alain Aspect founded the atomic optics group at the Institut d’Optique at Orsay, with Nathalie Westbrook and Robin Kaiser, and later Christoph Westbrook. Atomic optics is a new field of research which aims to use the forces exerted by lasers on atoms to control their paths, in the same way as traditional optics controls light rays with mirrors and lenses. From 1992 to 1996, the atomic optics group carried out a series of experiments which showed the possibilities—and also the limits—of so-called evanescentwave atomic mirrors, in which atoms bounce off a sheet of light, obtained by the total reflection of light waves produced by a laser inside a glass prism. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www2.cnrs.fr/sites/communique/fichier/bose_einstein_enpdf.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
