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Stimulated radiative decay of a metastable state of the helium atom

L. A. Rivlin

Moscow State Institute of Radio-Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)

Abstract: The possibility of observing stimulated emission of VUV photons upon a direct transition from the 2³S₁ metastable state of the atomic helium in a Bose–Einstein condensate is demonstrated.

PACS: 32.80.-t, 03.75.Pp

Received: 03.08.2004

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2004, 34:11, 1011–1012

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