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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

Optically controllable elements for integrated atom optics

Dominik Schneble, Masahiro Hasuo, T. Anker, Tilman Pfau, J. Mlynek

Published Nov 13, 2002• 0 citations
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Abstract

We have demonstrated integrated atom-optical elements with optical potentials in less than one micron distance from a surface, including a continuous source, a quasi-2D shutterable atom beam, a local detector and a quasi-1D lattice.
DOI
10.1109/cleopr.2001.971115

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