Near-field imaging of atom diffraction gratings: The atomic Talbot effect

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Michael Chapman · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christopher R. Ekstrom · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Troy D. Hammond · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jörg Schmiedmayer · Universität Innsbruck

B. E. Tannian · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stefan Wehinger · Universität Innsbruck

David E. Pritchard

Abstract

We have demonstrated the Talbot effect, the self-imaging of a periodic structure, with atom waves. We have measured the successive recurrence of these self-images as a function of the distance from the imaged grating. This is a near-field interference effect, which has several possible applications that are discussed.

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Near-Field Optical Microscopy Photonic and Optical Devices Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications

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Published in: Physical Review A

Volume 51, Issue 1, pp. R14-R17

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.51.r14

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 92.48

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