Perfect Coherence Preservation in an Atom Interferometer Perturbed by Optical Standing Wave Pulses Acting as a Kicked Rotor
Publication information:
A. Tonyushkin, S. Wu, M. Prentiss, and Ieee. 2008. “Perfect Coherence Preservation in an Atom Interferometer Perturbed by Optical Standing Wave Pulses Acting As a Kicked Rotor”. 2008 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS & QUANTUM ELECTRONICS AND LASER SCIENCE CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-9, Pp. 3349-50
Abstract
We experimentally studied the effect of standing wave pulses on an atom interferometer. Despite the external field perturbations the coherence is perfectly preserved for the conditions similar to quantum resonances of a quantum kicked rotor. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America