Coherent beam splitter for atoms based on a bichromatic standing light wave.
We propose a new coherent atomic beam splitter that is based on the induced redistribution of photons in the intense field of two collinear standing waves with different frequencies. In the dressed-atom approach, we show that this scheme can provide a clear large-angle splitting into two components without being restricted to the Raman-Nath regime.
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Söding
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Ovchinnikov
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