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Frontiers in Optics

Evanescent Field Atom Optics Using Micro-Tapered Fibers

Síle Nic Chormaic, Michael Morrissey, Kieran Deasy, Thejesh Bandi Nagabhushan, Jonathan M. Ward, Brian Shortt

Published Jan 1, 2006• 1 citation
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Abstract

We present initial results obtained using an evanescent field of a tapered optical fibre for trapping and guiding cold, neutral atoms. Losses through the fibre are monitored in order to detect atom-light coupling.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2006.ltuk3

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