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  • International Quantum Electronics Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1986),
  • paper FGG1

Experimental study of light forces on atoms: diffraction and diffusion

PHILIP L. GOULD, GEORGE A. RUFF, P. J. MARTIN, J. L. PICQUE, R. E. STONER, and DAVID E. PRITCHARD

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Abstract

We have observed both diffractive and diffusive regimes in the transfer of momentum to an atomic beam by a standing-wave radiation field. The transition from diffractive to diffusive behavior is associated with an increase in the average number of spontaneous decays occurring during the interaction. In the diffractive regime, spontaneous decay is insignificant, and momentum transfer proceeds by pairs of absorption/stimulated emission processes.

© 1986 Optical Society of America

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