Abstract
Well collimated high intesnity atom beams are important in many areas of atomic physics. We use laser radiation pressure to sequentially collimate, slow and compress a beam of metastable helium atoms. The resulting slow atomic beam has a high density and low divergence.
© 1996 Optical Society of America
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