Imaging cold atoms with shot-noise and diffraction limited holography
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Imaging cold atoms with shot-noise and diffraction limited holography
We theoretically develop and experimentally demonstrate a holographic method for imaging cold atoms at the diffraction and photon shot noise limits. Aided by a double point source reference field, a simple iterative algorithm robustly removes the twin image of an Rb cold atom sample during the image reconstruction. Shot-noise limited phase shift and absorption images are consistently retrieved ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: New Journal of Physics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/9/093064