Abstract
Standing-wave laser fields produce a periodic potential for atoms, which can trap cold atoms in an ordered crystallike structure.1 In most optical lattices studied so far, the light is tuned close to a resonance, so that spontaneous emission limits the atomic coherence time. The lattice periodicity in these experiments Naturally is close to that of a resonant optical standing wave.
© 1998 Optical Society of America
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