Output Coupler for Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms

M.-O. Mewes, M. R. Andrews, D. M. Kurn, D. S. Durfee, C. G. Townsend, and W. Ketterle
Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 582 – Published 27 January 1997
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Abstract

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.”

  • Received 21 October 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.582

©1997 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

M.-O. Mewes, M. R. Andrews, D. M. Kurn, D. S. Durfee, C. G. Townsend, and W. Ketterle

  • Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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Vol. 78, Iss. 4 — 27 January 1997

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