Q. Y. He,1,2 P. D. Drummond,2 M. K. Olsen,3 and M. D. Reid2 1State Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 2Centre for Quantum Atom Optics, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia 3Centre for Quantum Atom Optics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia (Received 3 January 2012; publi...

We present a guided atom laser. A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is created in a crossed hybrid magnetic and an elongated optical trap, which acts as a matterwave guide. Atoms are extracted from the BEC by radio frequency (rf) outcoupling and then guided in the horizontal optical matterwave guide. This method allows to control the acceleration of the beam and to achieve large de Broglie wavelen...

Zhengkun Fu,1 Lianghui Huang,1 Zengming Meng,1 Pengjun Wang,1 Xia-Ji Liu,2 Han Pu,3,4 Hui Hu,2 and Jing Zhang1,* 1State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, People’s Republic of China 2Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne 3122, Australia 3Departme...