Abstract
The theory of atomic diffraction from a classical standing wave light field in the presence of spontaneous emission in the Raman-Nath regime was developed by Tanguy et al. [6]. We describe the basis of computationally efficient methods for performing calculations in this regime and show their agreement with recent experimental results of Gould et al. [4].
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