Beam Splitter for Guided Atoms

Donatella Cassettari; B Hessmo; R Folman; T Maier; J Schmiedmayer

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5483

Beam Splitter for Guided Atoms

Donatella Cassettari, B Hessmo, R Folman, T Maier, J Schmiedmayer

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Abstract

We have designed and experimentally studied a simple beam splitter for guided atoms realized with a current carrying Y-shaped wire nanofabricated on a surface (atom chip). Such a Y-configuration beam splitter has many advantages compared to conventional designs based on tunneling, especially that it will enable robust beam splitting. This and other similar designs can be integrated into more sophisticated surface-mounted atom optical devices at the mesoscopic scale.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5483-5487
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	85
Issue number	26
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5483
Publication status	Published - 25 Dec 2000

Keywords

GUIDING NEUTRAL ATOMS
HOLLOW OPTICAL-FIBERS
Y-BRANCH SWITCH
STANDING-WAVE
COLD ATOMS
WIRE TRAP
MIRRORS
CHIPS

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