Output Coupler for Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms

@inproceedings{Mewes1997OutputCF,
  title={Output Coupler for Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms},
  author={M.-O. Mewes and Michael R. Andrews and D. M. Kurn and Dallin S. Durfee and Christopher P. Townsend and Wolfgang Ketterle},
  year={1997}
}

• M.-O. Mewes, Michael R. Andrews, +3 authors Wolfgang Ketterle
• Published 1997

We have demonstrated an output coupler for Bose condensed atoms in a magnetic trap. Short pulses of rf radiation were used to create Bose condensates in a superposition of trapped and untrapped hyperfine states. The fraction of out-coupled atoms was adjusted between 0% and 100% by varying the amplitude of the rf radiation. This configuration produces output pulses of coherent atoms and can be regarded as a pulsed “atom laser.” [S0031-9007(96)02255-7] 

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