• DOI:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.78.582
• Corpus ID: 9560538

Output Coupler for Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms

@article{Mewes1997OutputCF,
  title={Output Coupler for Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms},
  author={M.-O. Mewes and M. R. Andrews and Dan M. Kurn and Dallin Durfee and Christopher Townsend and Wolfgang Ketterle},
  journal={Physical Review Letters},
  year={1997},
  volume={78},
  pages={582-585}
}

• M. Mewes, M. R. Andrews, +3 authors W. Ketterle
• Published 27 January 1997
• Physics
• Physical Review Letters

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 {open_quotes}atom laser.{close_quotes} {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}