Output Coupler for Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms
Physical Review LettersPublished 27 January 1997
M.‐O. Mewes, M. R. Andrews, Dan Stamper-Kurn, Dallin Durfee, C. G. Townsend, Wolfgang Ketterle
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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.''
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