Laser Cooling and Bose-Einstein Condensation. Coherent Atom Optics with Atom Lasers.
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عنوان ژورنال: The Review of Laser Engineering
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0387-0200,1349-6603
DOI: 10.2184/lsj.28.160