Optical lattice on an atom chip

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3463-3465 (2009)
• Gallego, D; Hofferberth, S; Schumm, T; Krüger, P; Schmiedmayer, J
• Optical dipole traps and atom chips are two very powerful tools for the quantum manipulation of neutral atoms. We demonstrate that both methods can be combined by creating an optical...

Magnetic field imaging with atomic Rb vapor

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3529-3531 (2009)
• Mikhailov, Eugeniy E; Novikova, I; Havey, M D; Narducci, F A
• We demonstrate the possibility of dynamic imaging of magnetic fields using electromagnetically induced transparency in an atomic gas. As an experimental demonstration we employ an...

Ramsey interferometry with an atom laser

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20661-20668 (2009)
• Döring, D; Debs, J E; Robins, N P; Figl, C; Altin, P A; Close, J D
• We present results on a free-space atom interferometer operating on the first order magnetically insensitive |F = 1,mF = 0) → |F = 2,mF = 0) ground state transition of Bose-condensed...

An investigation of harmonic generation in liquid media with a mid-infrared laser

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20959-20965 (2009)
• DiChiara, Anthony D; Sistrunk, Emily; Miller, Terry A; Agostini, Pierre; DiMauro, Louis F
• Abstract: We present a harmonic generation experiment using liquid H₂O and D₂O interrogated by a mid-infrared, 3.66 μm, laser at a maximum intensity of...

Rotating single atoms in a ring lattice generated by a spatial light modulator

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.21007-21014 (2009)
• He, Xiaodong; Xu, Peng; Wang, Jin; Zhan, Mingsheng
• We demonstrated trapping single neutral Rb atoms in micro traps of an optical ring lattice formed by superposing the ±l components of the Laguerre-Gaussian mode, and generated by...

Efficient sub-Doppler laser cooling of an Indium atomic beam

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.21216-21221 (2009)
• Kim, Jae-Ihn; Haubrich, Dietmar; Meschede, Dieter
• We have realized efficient transverse cooling of an Indium atomic beam by combining optical pumping with a closed cycle UV laser cooling transition at 325.6 nm. The transverse...

Investigation of a simplified model of storage and retrieval of light in a thermal atomic system

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• JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2261-2267 (2009)
• Xie, Min; Qiu, Tianhui; Meng, Jianyu; Yang, Guojian
• We investigate the storage and retrieval of a weak signal light in a thermal Λ type three-level atomic system. We examine in detail the time-dependent aspect of this system in which...

Cs 894.3 nm laser pumped by photoassociation of Cs-Kr pairs: excitation of the Cs D2 blue and red satellites

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3638-3640 (2009)
• Readle, J D; Verdeyen, J T; Eden, J G; Davis, S J; Gabally-Kinney, K L; Rawlins, W T; Kessler, W J
• Lasing on the D₁ transition (6P1/22-->6S1/22) of Cs has been observed by photoassociating Cs-Kr atomic pairs with a tunable, pulsed dye laser. Pumping of the blue or...