Monday, December 3, 2012

1211.7220 (Maxim A. Efremov et al.)

Atom lens without chromatic aberrations    [PDF]

Maxim A. Efremov, Polina V. Mironova, Wolfgang P. Schleich
We propose a lens for atoms with reduced chromatic aberrations and calculate its focal length and spot size. In our scheme a two-level atom interacts with a near-resonant standing light wave formed by two running waves of slightly different wave vectors, and a far-detuned running wave propagating perpendicular to the standing wave. We show that within the Raman-Nath approximation and for an adiabatically slow atom-light interaction, the phase acquired by the atom is independent of the incident atomic velocity.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.7220

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