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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Spectroscopy on high-density mesoscopic atom samples

Herbert Crepaz, Marcin Kubasik, Marco Koschorreck, S.R. de Echaniz, Jürgen Eschner

Published Jun 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this paper trap-state spectroscopy on dense, cold optically trapped, micron sized atom clouds is performed and compared the results with model calculations based on a non-interacting, thermal Bose-gas confined in an anisotropic, 3-dimensional, Gaussian potential.
DOI
10.1109/cleoe-iqec.2007.4386745

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