Anisotropic velocity distributions in 3D dissipative optical lattices
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We present a direct measurement of velocity distributions in two dimensions by using an absorption imaging technique in a 3D near resonant optical lattice. The results show a clear difference in the velocity distributions for the different directions. The experimental results are compared with a numerical 3D semi-classical Monte-Carlo simulation. The numerical simulations are in good qualitative agreement with the experimental results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0301034,
title = {Anisotropic velocity distributions in 3D dissipative optical lattices},
author = {Johan Jersblad and Harald Ellmann and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia and Anders Kastberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0301034},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J., "Special issue: Quantum fluctuations and coherence in optical and atomic structures" (2003)