December 1, 1999
Author(s)
Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, J Denschlag, J E. Simsarian, M Edwards, Charles W. Clark, Kristian Helmerson, S L. Rolston, William D. Phillips
We analyze and experimentally demonstrate a new (temporal) Talbot effect, where a pulsed phase grating is applied to a cloud of cold atoms (Bose-Einstein condensate). In contrast to the usual (spatial) Talbot effect, our atoms gain kinetic energy when