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Atom optics began to develop as an independent physics discipline only in the mid-1990s. This occurred because effects of laser radiation’s light pressure forces on the progressive movement of atoms were found. A meeting of the RAS Presidium was devoted to prospects for the development of a new trend in the optics of material particles. The article published below is based on the paper heard at this meeting.
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Balykin, 2011, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2011, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 291–301.
Viktor Ivanovich Balykin, Dr. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), is a laboratory head at the RAS Institute of Spectroscopy.
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Balykin, V.I. Atom optics and its applications. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 81, 91–100 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331611020092
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