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Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics

Laser guiding of cold atoms in photonic crystals

A. V. Tarasishin^a, A. M. Zheltikov^b, S. A. Magnitskiy^a, V. A. Shuvaev<sup>a

a</sup> International Laser Center of Moscow State University
^b Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics

Abstract: The possibility of using photonic crystals with a lattice defect for the laser guiding of cold atoms is analysed. We have found a configuration of a photonic-crystal lattice and a defect ensuring the distribution of a potential in the defect mode of the photonic crystal allowing the guiding of cold atoms along the defect due to the dipole force acting on atoms. Based on quantitative estimates, we have demonstrated that photonic crystals with a lattice defect permit the guiding of atoms with much higher transverse temperatures and a much higher transverse localisation degree than in the case of hollow-core fibres.

PACS: 32.80.Pj, 42.70.Mp

Received: 31.03.2000

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2000, 30:9, 843–846

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