Atom Lithography

作者:Natarajan Vasant*
来源:JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, 2014, 94(2): 173-178.

摘要

We review the two kinds of forces that near-resonant light exerts on atoms the spontaneous force that is used for laser cooling, and the stimulated force that is used for coherent manipulation of atoms. We will discuss an experiment where laser cooling is used to collimate an atomic beam of sodium atoms, and the stimulated force within one period of a one-dimensional standing wave is used as a lens to focus the atoms to a narrow line about 20 nm wide. This kind of atom lithography is an example of the general field of atom optics in which light is used to manipulate atoms.

  • 出版日期2014-6