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* (doughnut) modes for atomic beam manipulation. A slow atomic beam is guided over up to 0.3 m and focused down to 6.5 μm radius. The doughnut mode is used as a strong mesoscopic dipole potential with vibrational level spacings up to the photon recoil energy. Polarization gradient cooling in this system generates a bimodal momentum distribution with a narrow component momentum width of 4 ?k.
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Received: 26 June 1998
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Schiffer, M., Rauner, M., Kuppens, S. et al. Guiding, focusing, and cooling of atoms in a strong dipole potential . Appl Phys B 67, 705–708 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050569
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