The physics of optical vortices, also known as twisted light, is now a well-established and a
growing branch of optical physics with a number of important applications and significant …

Atom optics refers to techniques to manipulate the trajectories and exploit the wave
properties of neutral atoms. In 1929 0. Stern and colleagues [1—3] laid the first stones, by …

I Introduction.-1 Review of Quantum Mechanics.-1.1 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory.-
1.2 The Rabi Two-Level Problem.-1.2. 1 Light Shifts.-1.2. 2 The Dressed Atom Picture.-1.2. 3 …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses optical dipole traps for neutral atoms. Methods
for storage and trapping of charged and neutral particles have very often served as the …

The ability to cool, manipulate, and trap atoms using laser light has allowed a new, rapidly
expanding field to emerge. Current research focuses on improving existing cooling …

A variety of powerful techniques to control the position and velocity of neutral particles has
been developed. As examples of this new ability, lasers have been used to construct a …

We have demonstrated a novel diffraction grating for atoms. A collimated beam of sodium
atoms with a de Broglie wavelength of 17 pm was diffracted by transmission through an …

For the last decade it has been possible to cool atoms to microkelvin temperatures (~ 1 cm s-
1) using a variety of optical techniques. Light beams provide the very strong frictional forces …

This review describes the methods of trapping cold atoms in electromagnetic fields and in
the combined electromagnetic and gravity fields. We discuss first the basic types of the …

A curved mirror for atoms was made from an evanescent wave, formed by internal reflection
of a quasiresonant laser beam at a curved glass surface. A cold cloud of cesium atoms was …