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Chin. Phys. B, 2010, Vol. 19(2): 023204    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/19/2/023204
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Production and guidance of pulsed atomic beams on chip

Yan Hui(颜辉)a)b)c), Yang Guo-Qing(杨国卿)a)b)c), Shi Tao(石涛)a)b)c), Wang Jin(王谨) a)b), and Zhan Ming-Sheng(詹明生) a)b)
State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan 430071, China; Centre for Cold Atom Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China;  Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Abstract  We demonstrated two experimental methods of producing and guiding pulsed atomic beams on chip. One is to trap atoms first in a U-type magneto-optical trap on the chip, then transfer them to the magnetic guide field and push them simultaneously by a continuous force from the power imbalance of the magneto-optical trap laser beams hence the pulsed cold atom beams are produced and move along the magnetic guide to the destination. The other is to trap atoms directly by a H-type magneto-optical trap, then push them to make them move along the magnetic guide field, thus high rate cold atom beams can be produced and guided on the chip.
Keywords:  atom guide      atom chip      pulsed atomic beam  
Received:  19 December 2008      Revised:  07 July 2009      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  37.10.De (Atom cooling methods)  
  32.60.+i (Zeeman and Stark effects)  
  03.75.Pp (Atom lasers)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2005CB724505/1 and 2006CB921203), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10774160), and the Science Foundation of Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (Grant No. P080001).

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Yan Hui(颜辉), Yang Guo-Qing(杨国卿), Shi Tao(石涛), Wang Jin(王谨), and Zhan Ming-Sheng(詹明生) Production and guidance of pulsed atomic beams on chip 2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 023204

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