Near-Resonant Imaging of Trapped Cold Atomic Samples.
We study the formation of diffraction patterns in the near-resonant imaging of trapped cold atomic samples. We show that the spatial imaging can provide detailed information on the trapped atomic clouds.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, MS 14, Cambridge, MA 02138.
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Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes deSaclay, Service de Photons, Atomes, et Molécules, Bâtiment 524, Gif-sur-Yvette 91191 Cedex, France.
Maciej
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Lewenstein
Bose-Einstein condensation; light scattering; optical imaging; quantum statistics