Optical Devices for Cold Atoms and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Laboratoire de Photophysique Moleculaire du CNRS, Batiment 210, Universite Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex (France)
- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Atomique, Moleculaire et Applications, Faculte des Sciences de Tunis, 2092 Tunis (Tunisia)
- Laboratoire Aime Cotton du CNRS, Batiment 505, Universite Paris-Sud 11, 91405 Orsay Cedex (France)
The manipulation of cold atoms with optical fields is a very promising technique for a variety of applications ranging from laser cooling and trapping to coherent atom transport and matter wave interferometry. Optical fields have also been proposed as interesting tools for quantum information processing with cold atoms. In this paper, we present a theoretical study of the dynamics of a cold {sup 87}Rb atomic cloud falling in the gravity field in the presence of two crossing dipole guides. The cloud is either deflected or split between the two branches of this guide. We explore the possibilities of optimization of this device and present preliminary results obtained in the case of zero-temperature dilute Bose-Einstein condensates.
- OSTI ID:
- 21035871
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 935, Issue 1; Conference: ISC 2007: 2. international spectroscopy conference, Sousse (Tunisia), 25-28 Mar 2007; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2795399; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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