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Cooling and Trapping of Atoms with Laser Light

Steven Chu, John E. Bjorkholm, Arthur Ashkin, Leo W. Hollberg, Alex Cable

Published Jan 1, 1986• 9 citations
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10.1007/978-1-4615-9459-8_5

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