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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Condition for cooperative Rayleigh scattering of laser light from Bose-Einstein condensate

Yuri A. Avetisyan

Published Apr 20, 2004• 1 citation
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Abstract

The scattering of the extended in time laser pulse from Bose-Einstein condensate of elongated form is considered. The evaluation of the conditions determining the transition from the usual isotropic Rayleigh scattering to the sharply anistropic (directed along the condensate) cooperative or superradiant Rayleigh scattering is presented
DOI
10.1117/12.561021

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