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Optics Letters

Experimental observation of the influence of the quantum fluctuations of resonance-radiation pressure

John E. Bjorkholm, Richard R. Freeman, Arthur Ashkin, D. B. Pearson

Published Mar 1, 1980• 54 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate that quantum fluctuations of the photon–atom interaction have a limiting influence on the focusing of neutral atomic beams by the dipole resonance-radiation pressure of a superimposed and co-propagating cw laser beam.
DOI
10.1364/ol.5.000111

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