Abstract
One of the well-known effects that are due to the wave nature of the atomic center of mass is the deflection of a beam of two-level atoms (moving along the z direction) by a laser standing wave (SW) applied along the transverse direction (x direction). Recently, new applications of the configuration but with two SW’s were reported1,2. In this paper a close analogy between the atom-multiple SW interaction and photon or spin echo phenomena will be discussed.
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Lee, C.J. (1996). Self Refocusing of Atomic Momentum by Light Field. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_145
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