| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 57, Number 2, January 2002
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 158 - 163 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00556-5 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Hydrogen atom interferometer with short light pulses
1
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik - 85748
Garching, Germany and Sektion Physik der Universität
München - 80799 München, Germany
2
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, UPN - Villetaneuse,
France and Laboratoire de Radioastronomie Millimetrique, UPMC -
Paris, France
Received:
25
July
2001
Accepted:
23
October
2001
We report the realization of a hydrogen atom interferometer
experiment using light as the atomic beam splitter. The wave
packets of hydrogen atoms excited to the metastable 2S state are
coherently split up and later recombined with the help of intense
nanosecond light pulses. The pulses are generated by a novel
phase-coherent source. These experiments can be seen as a step
towards a precision measurement of the recoil energy of a hydrogen
atom when absorbing a photon and thus of 
.
PACS: 03.75.Dg – Atom and neutron interferometry / 39.20.+q – Atom interferometry techniques / 32.80.Lg – Mechanical effects of light on atoms, molecules, and ions
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