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

Simple atom trap in a hollow mirror and its application to atom optics

Kwanil I. Lee, Jongan I. Kim, Heung-Ruoul Noh, Wonho Jhe

Published May 1, 1997• 4 citations
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Abstract

We present a novel and simple atom trap in a pyramidal and a conical hollow mirror cavity and its application to atom optics. Using a conical axicon mirror trap, we also have produced a pulsed cold atomic beam extracted from the trapped atoms. We point out several novel features of our cold atomic beams.
DOI
10.1117/12.273767

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