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Light transport in cold atoms and thermal decoherence
Abstract : By using the coherent backscattering interference effect, we investigate experimentally and theoretically how coherent transport of light inside a cold atomic vapour is affected by the residual motion of atomic scatterers. As the temperature of the atomic cloud increases, the interference contrast dramatically decreases emphazising the role of motion-induced decoherence for resonant scatterers even in the sub-Doppler regime of temperature. We derive analytical expressions for the corresponding coherence time.
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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00021119
Contributor : Dominique Delande <>
Submitted on : Friday, March 17, 2006 - 1:24:12 PM
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Contributor : Dominique Delande <>
Submitted on : Friday, March 17, 2006 - 1:24:12 PM
Last modification on : Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 3:38:08 AM
Long-term archiving on: : Saturday, April 3, 2010 - 9:55:13 PM