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Fiber integrated optics, and other issues quantum electronics

Monokinetization of atomic beams by the method of laser photodetachment of electrons

L. A. Rivlin


Abstract: A method is suggested for the generation of atomic beams with a high degree of monokinetization from beams of negative ions accelerated in an electric field up to a threshold moment at which, subject to the Doppler effect, the longitudinal component of the ion velocity becomes sufficient for the photodetachment of an electron from an ion by photons in a laser beam collinear with the ion beam. The resultant neutral atoms continue to move without acceleration and at the same longitudinal velocities equal to the threshold value. An analysis of a number of factors limiting this effect is given below.

UDC: 621.373.826

PACS: 32.80.Gc

Received: 30.03.1989

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1990, 20:5, 564–566

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