Beam quality of a nonideal atom laser.
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چکیده
We study the propagation of a noninteracting atom laser distorted by the strong lensing effect of the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) from which it is outcoupled. We observe a transverse structure containing caustics that vary with the density within the residing BEC. Using the WKB approximation, Fresnel-Kirchhoff integral formalism, and ABCD matrices, we are able to describe analytically the atom-laser propagation. This allows us to characterize the quality of the nonideal atom-laser beam by a generalized M2 factor defined in analogy to photon lasers. Finally we measure this quality factor for different lensing effects.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 96 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006