TY - JOUR
T1 - Cavity atom optics and the 'free atom laser'
AU - Heurich, J.
AU - Moore, M. G.
AU - Meystre, P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported in part by the US Office of Naval Research under Contract No. 14-91-J1205, by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY98-01099, by the US Army Research Office, and by the Joint Services Optics Program. J.H. is grateful to the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation for financial support.
PY - 2000/5/25
Y1 - 2000/5/25
N2 - The trap environment in which Bose-Einstein condensates are generated and/or stored strongly influences the way they interact with light. The situation is analogous to cavity QED in quantum optics, except that in the present case, one tailors the matter-wave mode density rather than the density of modes of the optical field. Just as in QED, for short times, the atoms do not sense the trap and propagate as in free space. After times long enough that recoiling atoms can probe the trap environment, however, the way condensates and light fields are mutually influenced differs significantly from the free-space situation. We use as an example the condensate collective atomic recoil laser, which is the atomic matter-wave analog of the free-electron laser.
AB - The trap environment in which Bose-Einstein condensates are generated and/or stored strongly influences the way they interact with light. The situation is analogous to cavity QED in quantum optics, except that in the present case, one tailors the matter-wave mode density rather than the density of modes of the optical field. Just as in QED, for short times, the atoms do not sense the trap and propagate as in free space. After times long enough that recoiling atoms can probe the trap environment, however, the way condensates and light fields are mutually influenced differs significantly from the free-space situation. We use as an example the condensate collective atomic recoil laser, which is the atomic matter-wave analog of the free-electron laser.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00482-4
DO - 10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00482-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033723821
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 179
SP - 549
EP - 558
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
IS - 1
ER -