Multimode-to-monomode guided-atom lasers: An entropic analysis
G. L. Gattobigio, A. Couvert, Matthew Jeppesen +2 more
We have experimentally demonstrated a high level of control of the mode populations of guided-atom lasers (GALs) by showing that the entropies per particle of an optically GAL and the one of the trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) from which it has been produced are the same. The BEC is prepared in a crossed beam optical dipole trap. We have achieved isentropic outcoupling for both magnetic and optical schemes. We can prepare GAL in a nearly pure monomode regime (85% in the ground state). Furthermore, optical outcoupling enables the production of spinor guided-atom lasers and opens the possibility to tailor their polarization.
arXiv:0905.4938•Physical Review A•Oct 19, 2009•39 citations