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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Photon-to-atom momentum transfer in precision atom interferometry

Edina Sarajlic, Steven Chu, Andreas Wicht

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present an analytical and numerical analysis aiming at the precise understanding of the photon-to-atom momentum transfer, which is important e.g. for the analysis of systematic effects in light pulse precision atom interferometry.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2004.itui22

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