Optically Guided Beam Splitter for Propagating Matter Waves
Optically Guided Beam Splitter for Propagating Matter Waves
We study experimentally and theoretically a beam splitter setup for guided atomic matter waves. The matter wave is a guided atom laser that can be tuned from quasimonomode to a regime where many transverse modes are populated, and propagates in a horizontal dipole beam until it crosses another horizontal beam …