The technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), which allows efficient and
selective population transfer between quantum states without suffering loss due to …

The authors discuss the technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), a
method of using partially overlap** pulses (from pump and Stokes lasers) to produce …

Methods for, and limitations to, the generation of entangled states of trapped atomic ions are
examined. As much as possible, state manipulations are described in terms of quantum …

The written version of my lecture is a personal account of the development of laser cooling
and trap**. Rather than give a balanced history of the field, I chose to present a personal …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the coherent population trap** in laser
spectroscopy. Coherent population trap** may be also described as the pum** of the …

We have performed a number of experiments with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a
one-dimensional optical lattice. Making use of the small momentum spread of a BEC and …

We present numerical results from solving the time-dependent nonlinear Schrödinger
equation (NLSE) that describes an inhomogeneous, weakly interacting Bose-Einstein …

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 …

A strong coupling standing wave, interacting with three-level Λ-type (or ladder-type) atoms,
can diffract a weak probe field (propagating along a direction normal to the standing wave) …

Many branches of contemporary physics require atoms or molecules prepared in specified
quantum states—not only for traditional studies of state-to-state collision dynamics, isotope …