An atom-focusing mirror

Bodil Holst () and William Allison ()
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Bodil Holst: Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
William Allison: Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Nature, 1997, vol. 390, issue 6657, 244-244

Abstract: Abstract The recent interest in atom-optics has mainly been directed at the manipulation of atomic beams by static fields or lasers1,2,3. Using an alternative approach we have succeeded in focusing in two dimensions a neutral atomic helium beam at room temperature with a reflective optical element (an atom mirror). Such focusing relies on specular elastic scattering, which leaves the coherence of incoming wavepackets unchanged.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/36769

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